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GEORGE  H.  PUNTENNEY,  Orderly  Sergeant  Co.  K, 
Rushville,  !nd. 


HISTORY 


OF  THE 


Thirty=Seventh  Regiment 


OF 


Indiana  Infantry  Volunteers 


ITS   ORGANIZATION,   CAMPAIGNS,   AND 
BATTLES==SEPT.,  '6i==OCT.,  '64. 


Written  by 

SERGEANT  GEORGE  H.  PUNTENNEY 

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At  the  request  of  his  Comrades 


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CONTENTS 


CHATTER  I — Organization — Regimental  and  Company 
Officers — Marching  Orders  Received — Going  to 
the  River  Through  Lawrenceburg — Ride  to  Louis 
ville  9 

CHAPTER  II — From  Salt  River  to  Elizabethtown— 
Thence  to  Bacon  Creek — Much  Sickness — The 
Colonel  Arrested — Chaplain  Lozier  Arrested.  ..  13 

CHAPTER  III — Marching  to  Bowling  Green — Thence 
to  Nashville 17 

CHAPTER  IV — Advance  on  Huntsville — Loyal  Shelby- 
villians — Huntsville  Captured  —  The  Sacking  of 
Athens 19 

CHAPTER  V — Marching  Back  to  Fayettesville — Thence 
to  Chattanooga — Captain  W.  D.  Ward  Captured.  28 

CHAPTKR    V  I — Battle  of  Stone  River 33 

CHAPTER  VII — Guarding  Murfreesboro —  A  Raid — 
Sunstroke — Hanging  Two  Men 38 

CHAPTER  VIII  —  Tullahoma  Campaign  —  Gambling 
Mania — Colonel  Hull  Detailed — Brigade  Stam 
peded  by  a  Cow  41 

CIIAPTKR  IX — Chickamauga  Campaign — Crossing  the 
Tennessee  River — Sand  Mountain  and  Lookout 
Mountain  —  Skirmishing  at  Pigeon  Mountain — 
Battle  of  Chickamauga.  .  .  47 


4  CONTENTS 

PAGE 

CHAPTER  X — Siege   of    Chattanooga — Starving' — Eat 
ing-  Cow  Tails  and  Acorns (5*2 

CHAPTER  XI — Atlanta    Campaign — Buzzard   Roost — 
Rocky  Face — Battle  of  Resaca 81 

CHAPTER  XII — Army  Moves  Forward  to   Calhoun — 
Battle  of  Pumpkinvine  Creek 87 

CHAPTER  XIII— The  Battle  of  Atlanta 110 

CHAPTER  XIV— The  Siege  of  Atlanta 118 

CHAPTER  XV — Flank  Movement — Fall  of  Atlanta  and 
Jonesboro 125 

CHAPTER  XVI— An  Incident 138 

REGIMENTAL  ROSTER    140 

MARCH  TO  THE  SEA    .  .  .181 


PREFACE 

COMRADES  of  the  Thirty-seventh  Indiana  Regiment, 

and  all  friends  of  that  Regiment  into  whose  hands 
this  little  volume  may  fall,  permit  me  to  assure  you  that 
I  know  full  well  that  this  little  work  which  I  dignify 
with  the  name  "  history  "  does  not  do  you  or  that  grand 
old  Regiment  even  partial  justice. 

A  complete  history  of  all  that  you  did.  dared,  en 
dured  and  sacrificed  in  crushing  the  rebellion,  and 
preserving  for  posterity  the  Government,  purchased  with 
the  blood  of  Revolutionary  fathers,  will  never  be  written. 
Xo  man  or  number  of  men  now  living  can  do  that. 

I  am  also  confident  that  many  of  my  comrades  could 
have  written  a  better  history  than  this,  but  that  duty  was 
not  imposed  upon  them. 

Xo  doubt  this  history  should  contain  many  things 
which  it  does  not;  but  L  trust  that  it  contains  nothing 
that  it  should  not.  I  have  tried  to  write  a  history  of  the 
Thirty-seventh  Regiment,  and  to  exclude  from  it  every 
word  that  might  be  offensive  to  any  comrade. 

The  effort  throughout  has  been  to  state,  without 
ornamentation  or  exaggeration,  as  many  plain  and  im 
portant  facts  as  possible  without  partiality  to  any  Com 
pany  or  person.  If  the  history  records  more  of  the  deeds 
of  Company  K  than  of  other  Companies,  it  is  because  the 
writer  belonged  10  that  Company,  and  not  because  he 


<>  PREFACE 

did  not  want  to  be  fair  with  other  Companies.  Each 
enlisted  man  in  the  Regiment  remembers  more  about  his 
own  Company  than  about  other  Companies. 

I  am  greatly  indebted  to  Comrades  Colonel  W.  D. 
Ward ;  Leroy  Roberts,  of  Company  F ;  and  T.  B.  Peery 
and  John  Wolverton,  of  Company  E,  and  others,  for 
many  valuable  facts  and  dates  furnished  me. 

GEORGE  H.  PUNTENXEY. 


W.  C.  RATION,  Co.  K, 
Greensburg,  Ind, 


Monumemt  of  the  Thirty-seventh  Indiana  Regiment, 
erected  in  1895,  on  the  Chickamauga  Battlefield,  at 
the  position  taken  by  the  Regiment  on  Saturday 
evening,  September  19,  1863. 


CHAPTER  ONE 

Organization— Regimental  and  Company  Officers    March 
ing  Orders  Received— Going  to  the  River  Through 
Lawrenceburg    Ride  to  Louisville. 

The  war  for  the  preservation  of  the  Union  had  pro 
gressed  only  about  four  months  when  the  Thirty -seventh 
Regiment  of  Indiana  volunteers  went  into  camp  at 
Lawrenceburg.  Some  few  companies  went  into  cam]) 
about  the  1st  of  August,  1801,  and  by  the  18th  of  that 
month  the  Regiment  contained  nearly  its  full  quota  of 
strong  young  men.  They  were  patriots  who  were  de 
termined  to  preserve  the  Union  and  crush  that  most 
wicked  rebellion  against  their  good  government  no 
matter  what  it  should  cost  in  blood  and  treasure.  It 
was  really  inspiring  to  be  associated  with  such  strong, 
young  and  brave  patriots.  A  few  months  after  the 
organization  of  the  Regiment,  General  Buell,  after 
reviewing  it,  said  it  was  as  fine  looking  Regiment  as  he 
ever  saw. 

The  Regiment  was  organized  with  George  W.  Ha/- 
zard,  Colonel ;  Carter  Gazlay,  Lieutenant-Colonel ;  James 
S.  Hull,  Major;  Livingston  llowlancl,  Adjutant;  Francis 
Riddle,  Quartermaster;  John  H.  Lozier,  Chaplain; 
William  Anderson,  Burgeon;  John  II.  Goodwin,  As 
sistant  Burgeon.  The  commissioned  Company  officers 
were:  Co  A,  William  I)  Ward,  Captain ;  William  Hyatt, 
First  Lieutenant;  Washington  Stockwell,  Second  Lieu- 


lOr  /*  ^        M£l£Tt>l£l  "OiC.  THE  THIKTY-SKVKNTII 

tenant.  Co.  B,  Thomas  V.  Kimble,  Captain ;  Robert  M. 
Goodwin,  First  Lieutenant;  William  H.  Wilkinson, 
Second  Lieutenant.  Co.  C,  Thomas  W.  Pate,  Captain; 
James  T.  Matteson,  First  lieutenant ;  Robert  C.  Pate. 
Second  Lieutenant.  Co.  D,  Hezekiah  Shook,  Captain; 
Jesse  B.  Holman,  First  Lieutenant;  James  M.  Hartley, 
Second  Lieutenant.  Co.  E,  Mahlon  C.  Connet,  Captain: 
Frank  Hughes,  First  Lieutenant:  Andrew  J.  Hungate, 
Second  Lieutenant.  Co.  F,  Wesley  G.  Markland,  Cap 
tain;  John  B.  Hodges,  First  Lieutenant;  Joseph  P. 
Stoops,  Second  Lieutenant.  Co.  G,  John  McCoy,  Cap 
tain;  Archibald  F.  Allen,  First  Lieutenant;  Daniel  S. 
Shafer,  Second  Lieutenant.  Co.  H,  William  H.  Tyner, 
Captain;  Quartus  C.  Moore,  First  Lieutenant;  George 
W.  Pye,  Second  Lieutenant.  Co.  I,  William  X.  Doughty, 
Captain;  John  Breaky,  First  Lieutenant;  Isaac  Aber- 
nathy,  Second  Lieutenant.  Co.  K,  John  McKee,  Cap 
tain;  Henry  Lord,  First  Lieutenant;  John  B.  Reeve, 
Second  Lieutenant. 

The  Colonel  was  a  regular  army  officer — a  real 
soldier — a  rigid  disciplinarian,  and  just  the  man  to 
teach  officers  and  enlisted  men  how  to  conduct  them 
selves  in  camp,  on  picket,  on  the  march,  on  the  skirmish 
line  and  on  the  field  of  battle.  No  doubt  the  Regiment 
owed  much  to  this  careful  training  for  the  brilliant 
record  it  afterwards  made  in  many  hard  fought  battles — 
a  record  on  which  there  is  not  a  single  stain. 

After  drilling  a  month  at  Lawrenceburg,  the  Regi 
ment,  on  the  18th  day  of  September,  1861,  was  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  by  taking  the  oath  required. 
To  be  a  real  soldier,  to  be  bound  by  a  solemn  oath  to 
obey  your  superior  officer,  even  if  so  doing  led  to  death 
in  a  strange  land,  caused  strange  feelings  to  agitate  the 
breasts  of  the  young  and  honest  farmers,  merchants, 
and  mechanics,  of  which  the  Regiment  was  largely 


INDIANA    VOLt'NTKKR    INFANTRY.  11 

composed      Hut,   for    the   love    of   their    country,   they 
cheerfully  accepted  the  solemn  obligation. 

On  the  19th  of  October,  at  dress  parade,  the  follow 
ing1  general  order  was  read  to  the  Regiment: 

"HEADQUARTERS  37rrn  Ixn.  VOL.,  / 
Camp  Dearborn,  Oct.  19, 1861.      \ 
ORDER  No.  9. 

The  Colonel  commanding  congratulates  the  Regi 
ment  that  they  are  ordered  to  take  the  field.  Our  first 
move  will  be  to  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  will  be  made  to 
morrow  night.  *  *  *  By  order  of 

L.  How  LAND,  Adjutant.  COL.  G.  W.  HAZZAKD, 

The  next  day  knapsacks  were  packed,  nearly  every 
man  having  twice  as  much  in  his  knapsack  as  he  could 
carry,  and  not  half  as  much  as  he  thought  he  would 
need  in  order  to  be  comfortable  during  the  approaching 
winter.  In  the  evening  the  Regiment  formed  and 
marched  through  Lawrenceburg  to  the  river.  Each 
man  had  a  pack  on  his  back  as  large  as  was  carried 
years  ago  by  traveling  dry  goods  peddlers.  Many  good 
old  ladies,  with  tears  running  down  their  motherly 
faces  as  the  boys  passed,  audibly  prayed  that  every  one 
might  be  spared  to  return  to  parents  and  friends.  The 
Regiment  and  teams  were  placed  on  a  steamboat  and 
two  large  barges  that  lay  at  the  wharf,  and  steamed  on 
down  to  Louisville.  The  night  was  extremely  cold  and 
the  men  suffered  greatly.  The  boat  arrived  at  Louis 
ville  before  day,  lay  there  most  of  the  next  day  and 
then  ran  down  to  the  mouth  of  Salt  River. 


John  W.  Davis,  Corporal  Co.  K, 
Kushville,  Tnd. 


CHAPTER  TWO 

From   Salt    River  to   Elizabethtown— Thence   to   Bacon 

Creek— Much  Sickness— Drilling— The  Colonel 

Arrested— Chaplain  Lozier  Arrested. 

At  Salt  River  the  Regiment  drilled  and  worked  on 
Muldraugh's  Hill  a  few  weeks,  and  then  moved  on  to 
Elizabethtown,  Ky.  From  there  it  went  to  Bacon 
Creek,  Ky.  The  men  had  been  greatly  exposed  during 
all  the  time  since  they  left  Lawrenceburg.  They  were 
not  allowed  to  gather  straw  for  beds,  and  had  to  sleep 
on  the  ground  in  their  tents  through  November  and 
December,  and  many  of  them  died  at  Bacon  Creek 
during  the  months  of  December  and  January.  At 
Bacon  Creek  twelve  men  died  in  one  night  in  the 
hospital  tent,  and  their  bodies  were  laid  out  on  a  rail 
pile  near  by.  Both  Col.  Hazzard  and  Dr.  Anderson 
were  to  blame  for  some  of  the  exposure  of  the  men. 
Consequently,  both  the  Colonel  and  the  Doctor  were 
heartily  disliked  by  most  of  the  enlisted  men.  The 
Colonel  would  not  permit  any  of  his  men  to  eat  any 
thing  but  government  rations.  It  was  a  serious  offense 
to  buy  cake,  pie,  fowl  or  fish  from  a  citizen.  If  the 
Colonel  found  any  man  coming  into  camp  with  pro 
vision  he  would  make  him  throw  it  away. 

One  day  a  Co.  H  man,  named  Daily,  who  could 
imitate  to  perfection  the  noise  of  any  barn-yard  fowl, 
came  past  the  Colonel's  tent  with  his  oil  blanket  full 
of  leaves  for  his  bed.  As  he  passed  the  tent,  a  noise 


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1IISTOKV  OF  TMK  Til  1KT  Y-SK  V  KN  t  II 


in  the  blanket  sounded  very  much  like  a  hen  was  con 
fined  there.  The  Colonel  rushed  out,  and  with  much 
profanity  assured  the  man  that  he  had  caught  him  dis 
obeying  orders  and  ordered  him  to  let  that  hen  go. 

Daily  dropped  the  leaves,  but  no  hen  ran  out,  and 
the  Colonel  ''caught  on"  and  sneaked  back  into  his  tent. 
December  came  in  cold  and  cheerless,  and  Jacob  S. 
McCul lough, Co.  K's  poet, sympathizing  with  the  gloomy 
surroundings  and  discouraging  prospect,  repeated  the 
poet's  melancholy  words,  "The  cold,  chilly  winds  of 

December,"  which  were  oft 
en  repeated  by  many  in  the 
Regiment  for  a  few  weeks. 

The  colder  it  got  the 
more  dissatisfied  the  men  be 
came,  and  the  more  vigorous 
was  the  Colonel's  discipline. 
Consequently,  the  men  were 
more  than  delighted  one 
day  when  Col.  Turchin, 
commanding  the  brigade, 
gave  a  command  which  they 
did  not  understand,  and 
Hazzard  rushed  furiously  at 
him,  saying:  '"There  is  no 
such  command  in  the  book." 


Lieut.  W.  H.  Baughman.  Co.  G. 
Richmond.  Ind. 


Then  Col.  Turchin  coolly  said :  "Col.  Hazzard,  you 
must  not  address  your  superior  officer  in  that  way ;  give 
me  your  sword;  consider  yourself  under  arrest  and  go  to 
your  quarters."  He  rode  off  and  the  men  in  the  Regi 
ment  could  scarcely  keep  from  cheering.  Turchin  was 
ever  afterwards  a  great  favorite  with  the  Thirty-Seventh 
Regiment. 

While  in  camp  at  Bacon  Creek,  Chaplain  John  H. 
Lo/ier  wrote  an  article,  which  was  published  in  the 


IN'DIANA    VoLrNTKER  INFANTRY.  ) 

Cincinnati  Commercial,  criticising  the  conduct  of  the 
Colonel  and  Surgeon.  For  this,  the  Colonel  placed  the 
Chaplain  under  arrest:  placed  charges  against  him,  and 
had  him  lined.  The  boys  made  up  the  tine  for  their 
Chaplain,  and  thus  showed  that  they  believed  in  him. 

Shortly  after  this  Dr.  Blackburn,  of  Cincinnati,  the 
medical  director  of  the  division  to  which  the  37th  be 
longed,  came  into  camp,  and  riding  up  to  Dr.  Anderson's 
quarters,  called  him  out  and  said:  "Doctor,  don't  you 
know  better  than  to  put  your  sick  men  in  such  a  hovel 
as  they  are  in?"  Dr. 
Blackburn,  continuing, 
said  :  "It  is  outrageous ; 
worse  than  the  Black 
Hole  of  Calcutta/'  Then 
Col.  Hazzard  came  out 
and  said  he  did  not  allow 
any  one  to  interfere  with 
his  Regiment.  Dr.  Black 
burn  said:  "I  will  come 
in  whenever  I  please/' 
Hazzard  said:  "Leave 
my  camp/'  "I  will  when 
I  get  ready,''  Dr.  Black 
burn  said.  The  Colonel  David  S.  Stewart.  Co.  K. 
turned  to  Grossman,  of 

Co.  A,  and  said :  "Bring  me  a  tile  of  guards.''  The  tile 
of  guards  was  brought,  and  when  Dr.  Blackburn  got 
ready  to  go,  he  turned  to  Col.  Hazzard  and  said  in  bit 
terest  sarcasm :  "Colonel,  have  you  that  escort  ready?'' 

The  Colonel  ordered  the  Corporal  to  take  the  Doctor 
out  of  camp,  which  he  did.  In  about  an  hour,  Gen. 
Mitchell,  our  division  commander,  rode  into  camp  and 
had  a  brief  talk  with  Col.  Hazzard  in  his  tent,  and  left. 
Soon  afterwards  Col.  Turchin  and  several  of  his  staff 


16  IIISTOKY   OF  TIIK  TIIIHTY-SKVKXTII 

rode  into  camp,  and  calling-  Col.  Ilazzard  out  of  his 
tent,  placed  him  under  arrest  in  the  presence  and  hear 
ing  of  a  large  number  of  officers  and  private  soldiers. 
This  was  loudly  cheered  by  many  of  the  soldiers. 
Major  Mull  said  the  cheering  "was  done  by  a  d — d  set  of 
low-flung  privates.1' 

After  the  removal  of  Ilazzard,  the  health  of  the 
Regiment  improved  rapidly  and  discontentment  dis 
appeared. 


CHAPTER  THREE 

The  March  to  Bowling  Green— Thence  to  Nashville. 

On  the  12th  of  Feb.,  1862,  the  Regiment  was  or 
dered  to  move  with  three  days'  rations  to  attack  the 
Confederates  at  Howling  Green,  Ky.  The  Regiment 
started  early  next  morning  and  marched  to  Cave  City 
that  day,  where  it  bivouacked  for  the  night. 

The  first  night  out  was  warm  the  fore  part  of  the 
night,  and  the  men  being  tired,  slept  soundly.  The 
snow  commenced  falling  about  midnight  and  covered, 
but  did  not  awake  the  tired  hosts.  The  bugle  awroke 
them  in  the  morning,  and  as  they  shook  the  snow  from 
their  garments,  each  boasted  of  his  good  night's  rest, 
and  prepared  for  the  day's  march.  The  rebels  having 
learned  of  our  advance,  burned  the  bridge  that 
spanned  Harron  River,  opposite  the  city,  and  our  brigade 
marched  a  fewT  miles  down  the  river  and  found  an  old 
boat  in  which  it  crossed  the  stream  with  great  difficulty 
by  working  all  night,  going  into  the  city  at  daylight. 
Xearly  all  the  houses  were  vacated,  and,  of  course,  the 
boys  did  not  sleep  out  of  doors  at  night  nor  suffer  for 
provision.  Meat  and  flour  and  meal  and  cooking 
utensils  were  there  in  abundance  and  the  army  feasted. 

Hefore  starting  down  the  river  a  battery  was 
planted  and  lired  at  a  train  in  the  city  loaded  with  mil 
itary  stores  and  just  ready  to  leave.  A  ball  struck  the 
engine  and  disabled  it.  This  caused  the  rebels  to  burn 
the  train  and  depot,  tilled  with  trunks  and  military 
stores.  They  had  a  strong  skirmish  line  on  their  side  of 
the  river,  which  caused  the  Thirty-Seventh  to  hear  the 


18  Illi-TOKY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

first  whistle  of  rebel  bullets.  The  exposure  and 
marching  had  been  too  great  for  Sergeant  John  F. 
Lingenfelter,  of  Co.  K,  who  took  pneumonia  and  died 
Feb.  23,  1862.  He  was  a  noble  and  brave  patriot,  loved 
by  all  his  comrades.  As  one  of  the  Regiments  marched 
into  town  preceded  by  its  band,  a  citizen  asked  Capt. 
Ward:  "What  are  you'ns  playing  we'uns  tune  for?" 
The  Captain  replied:  "It  is  our  tune ;  we  are  going 
down  into  Dixie,  and  intend  to  stay  there." 

From  Bowling  Green  the  Regiment  marched  on  to 
Nashville,  Tenn.  The  rebels  had  cut  down  the  line 
suspension  bridge  that  spanned  the  Cumberland  River, 
which  was  high,  and  was  crossed  with  great  difficulty. 
But  the  weather  was  getting  warm  and  delightful,  and 
the  beautiful  southland,  and  Nashville — the  home  of 
Jackson  and  James  K.  Polk — seemed  to  inspire  the  men 
of  the  Thirty-Seventh  with  cheer  and  hope. 

While  in  camp  near  Nashville,  three  men,  W.  D. 
Elrod,  H.  S.  Lane  and  James  Harper,  were  captured 
while  outside  of  the  lines  by  a  force  of  cavalry.  A  bat 
talion  of  Federal  cavalry  pursued,  and  while  a  lively 
skirmish  was  going  on  the  three  prisoners  escaped,  Lane 
having  received  a  severe  wound  in  the  neck. 

About  the  5th  of  March,  1862,  Col.  Hazzard 
received  orders  from  the  War  Department  to  report  for 
duty  to  his  command  in  the  Regular  Army.  Gen.  Buell 
released  him  from  arrest  that  he  might  obey  the  order, 
but  instead  of  doing  it  he  assumed  command  of  the 
Regiment.  Col.  Ward,  then  Captain,  being  officer  of  the 
day,  was  ordered  to  tell  our  old  Colonel  to  give  up  the 
command,  which  he  did,  and  Col.  Hazzard  called  for 
his  horse,  rode  away  and  was  never  seen  again  by  any 
one  of  the  Regiment.  He  was  Captain  of  a  battery  in 
the  Eastern  Army,  to  which  he  returned  and  was  killed, 
it  is  said,  in  the  seven  davs'  battle  before  Richmond. 


CHAPTER  FOUR 

Advance  on  Huntsville,  Ala.— Going  Through  the  Enemy's 
Country— Loyal  Shelbyvillians— Huntsville  Cap 
tured— Sacking  of  Athens. 

The  brigade  to  which  the  Thirty -Seventh  Ind.  be 
longed  at  this  time  was  composed  of  the  following 
Regiments:  The  Nineteenth  Ills.;  The  Twenty- Fourth 
Ills.;  the  Eighteenth  Ohio  and  the  Thirty-Seventh  Ind. 

About  the  last  of  March,  1862,  the  division  to  which 
this  brigade  was  attached,  Commanded  by  Gen.  O.  M. 
Mitchell,  the  author  of  "Mitchell's  Geography,''  which 
most  of  his  soldiers  had  studied,  was  taken  from  Gen. 
Buell's  army  and  sent  south  to  Huntsville,  Ala. 

We  marched  south  by  easy  stages,  meeting  an 
almost  universal  rebel  sentiment  until  we  reached 
Shelbyville,  Tenn.,  where  the  citizens  met  us  with  our 
flag  and  welcomed  us  with  great  delight.  The  Union 
sentiment  was  so  strong  there  that  the  rebels  called  it 
New  Boston. 

The  friendship  of  these  people  made  us  feel  like  we 
were  near  home.  They  were  like  Northern  people,  and 
they  dearly  loved  the  old  flag  and  the  Union. 

From  Shelbyville  we  went  to  Fayetteville,  Tenn., 
and  remained  there  a  few  days.  April  5th,  1862,  we 
started  for  Huntsville,  Ala.  It  rained  incessantly  all 
day,  and  so  we  marched  all  day  through  mud  and 
swollen  streams.  We  doubt  if  there  was  anything  on 
any  one  that  day  was  dry  but  his  powder.  We 


'20  MISTOHY  OF  THE  Til  I  RTY-SK  V  KNTI1 

were  then  in  the  heart  of  the  enemy's  country,  with  no 
friends  but  the  poor  negroes,  and  we  had  to  be  pre 
pared  all  the  time  for  battle. 

About  dusk  the  evening  before  we  got  to  Hunts- 
ville  we  came  to  a  stream,  across  which  there  was  no 
bridge,  and  in  which  the  water  was  fully  four  feet 
deep.  Gen.  Mitchell  was  in  a  hurry,  and  his  army  must 
cross,  no  matter  how  deep  and  cold  the  water  was. 
The  men  good  naturedly  took  off  their  coats,  shoes, 
stockings  and  pants  (their  shirts  were  not  much  longer 
than  their  vests,  and  there  was  no  need  to  remove  them), 
and  holding  up  their  guns,  cartridge  boxes,  haversacks 
and  clothing,  plunged  into  the  water  with  a  whoop  and 
came  out  on  the  other  side.  There  they  built  fires, 
warmed  and  put  on  their  clothing,  ate  a  little  supper 
and  pushed  forward,  marching  all  night,  and  arrived  at 
Huntsville  at  daylight  the  next  morning,  taking  the 
citizens  by  surprise.  The  first  intimation  they  had  of 
our  presence  was  the  heavy  tramp  of  the  soldiers  on 
the  streets.  It  is  said  that  one  old  lady,  hearing  the 
noise,  looked  out  of  her  window  and  exclaimed :  "Oh, 
Lord!  what  big  men;  no  wonder  we'uns  can't  fight  'um." 

The  citizens  received  the  soldiers  civilly  but  coldly, 
while  the  colored  people  could  not  conceal  their  delight 
at  seeing  us,  and  did  not  seem  to  try  to  do  so.  One  old 
colored  woman  came  rushing  along,  and  with  tears 
running  down  her  cheeks,  shouted:  "Glory  to  God! 
Glory  to  God!  I'se  been  praying  for  dis  dose  many 
years."  The  citi/ens  were  not  friendly,  but  quite  sub 
missive.  To  swoop  down  on  a  large  city,  take  charge 
of  it  and  require  the  citizens  to  act  as  you  dictate  to 
them,  gives  one  a  good  idea  of  the  prerogatives  of  war. 

We  captured  at  Iluntsville  a  large  number  of  pris 
oners,  nineteen  locomotives  and  much  rolling  stock. 
The  rebels  disabled  most  of  the  captured  engines,  but 


INDIANA    YOU  NTKKK    INFANTI5Y.  '21 

there  were  plenty  of  machinists  in  our  division,  and  in  a 
short  time  they  had  these  engines  in  good  order  again. 
Our  brigade  was  soon  put  on  a  train  of  cars — platform 
and  stock  cars — and  hurried  to  the  railroad  bridge  that 
crossed  the  Tennessee  River  at  Decatur,  Ala.  We  were 
there  in  time  to  prevent  the  burning  of  it,  and  the  next 
day  we  went  west  to  Tuscuiubia.  That  town  is  sur 
rounded  by  a  fine  country  and  large  plantations.  Some 
of  the  negro  quarters  of  a  single  plantation  contained  ten 
or  tifteen  little  houses  or  homes  for  the  slaves.  At 
Huntsville  we  saw  the  first  whipping  post  to  which 
negroes  were  tied  while  being  whipped. 

At  Tuscumbia  we  saw  the  lirst  trained  blood  hounds. 
They  were  kept  in  a  little  pen,  and  looked  as  if  they 
would,  as  a  little  darkey  said,  "Eat  a  niggah  up  in  a 
minute,  shore."  We  made  several  raids  on  different  parts 
of  the  country  around  Tuscumbia  for  several  days,  but 
nothing  of  importance  occurred  till  one  day  a  large 
force  of  the  enemy  moved  onto  us  and  we  were  ordered 
to  fall  back  to  Decatur.  In  the  meantime  a  barrel  of 
whisky  was  captured,  and  the  Colonel,  Gazley,  not 
being  a  strict  temperance  man,  knocked  in  the  barrel's 
head  and  let  the  boys  till  their  canteens  with  the  stuff. 
Some  of  the  boys,  not  many  of  them,  got  drunk,  and  it 
was  believed  that  Capt.  W.  I).  Ward,  afterwards  Col 
onel,  was  the  maddest  man  in  either  army.  After 
crossing  a  stream  called  Big  Xance,  some  of  the  men 
were  quite  drunk  and  had  to  be  cared  for.  Fortunately 
there  were  not  many  in  that  condition.  Most  men 
in  the  Regiment  considered  getting  drunk  almost  as 
disgraceful  as  playing  the  coward  in  front  of  the  enemy. 
As  we  were  the  first  Union  soldiers  those  South 
erners  had  seen,  we  had  a  good  opportunity  to  learn 
something  of  the  feeling  of  Southern  people  for  North 
ern  soldiers.  And  it  is  safe  to  say  that  most  Southern 


HISTORY   OF   TIIK   Tl  1 1  KT  Y-SK  VKN'TI  I 


people  actually  hated  the  Northern  soldiers,  and 
Northern  people.  The  best  citizens  of  the  South  would 
do  all  in  their  power  to  deceive  our  soldiers. 

Women  turned  up  their  pretty  noses  at  our  men 
when  they  met  them.  One  woman  in  Huntsville  delib 
erately  spit  on  a  soldier  one  day,  and  he  simply  knocked 
her  down.  No  more  soldiers  were  spit  on.  But  those 
ladies  soon  got  over  their  prejudices,  and  soon  after 
wards  the  best-looking  ladies  of  Huntsville  were  seen 
walking  the  streets  escorted  by  some  blue-coated  officer 

or  soldier,  and  in  a  num 
ber  of  instances  those 
Southern  ladies  married 
those  Northern  soldiers; 
all  of  which  goes  to  show 
that  those  ladies  were  not 
only  good  looking,  but 
smart,  and  knew  a  good 
thing  when  they  saw  it. 

While  at  Huntsville 
our  boys  captured  the 
rebel  mails  two  or  three 
times,  and  reading  those 
captured  letters  was  past- 

Wm.    Rowland,   Co.     F,   North    In-  time    with     SQme      Qf     Uf, 
dianapolis.    Ind.       Wonnded     at 

Battle  Stone  River.  Dec.  31.  1862.  lhose  Otters   showed  just 

Discharged  March  31,  18«3.  what     the      people     down 

there  were.  While  many  of  the  writers  of  the  letters 
were  evidently  illiterate  and  coarse,  many  of  them  were 
scholarly  and  refined.  Some  of  the  letters  from  parents 
to  sons,  and  from  sons  to  parents,  showed  that  their 
writers  were  intelligent  Christians,  unfortunately  en 
gaged  in  a  bad  cause.  As  a  sort  of  war  measure  the  people  at 
Huntsville  had  issued  a  large  number  of  pasteboard  cards 
on  which  were  printed:  "Good  for  10  cents;''  sometimes 


INDIANA    VOLUNTEER    INFANTRY. 


23 


for  a  larger  amount,  and  when  any  one  got  $5  worth  of  such 
cards  with  some  merchant's  name  on  them,  they  were 
redeemed  with  a  Confederate  $5  bill.  The  Nineteenth 
Ills,  boys  got  a  printing  press  and  some  pasteboard,  and 
expanded  the  circulation  till  no  man's  name  on  a  card 
was  worth  a  penny.  While  at  Huntsville  the  37th  Regi 
ment  and  the  brigade  received  orders  to  go  to  the  relief 
of  the  18th  Ohio,  which  had  been  attacked  at  Athens  by 
a  large  force  of  rebels.  Our  Regiment,  commanded  by 
Major  W.  D.  Ward,  who  had  been  recently  promoted 
from  Captain,  and  the 
rest  of  the  brigade,  all 
under  command  of  Col. 
Turchin,  took  the  cars 
and  went  to  the  nearest 
point  to  Athens.  From 
there  we  marched  all 
night  toward  that  town, 
and  at  daylight  met  the 
18th  Ohio  slowly  falling 
back  before  a  superior 
force  of  the  enemy. 

The  brigade  formed 
for  action,  and  it  was  not 
long  before  the  rebels 
were  making  a  much  more 
rapid  retreat  than  the  18th  Ohio  had  been  making. 
They  were  driven  several  miles  beyond  Athens,  when 
we  returned  to  the  town.  Col.  Turchin,  who  com 
manded  the  brigade,  ordered  Major  Ward,  of  the  37th 
I nd.,  and  Col.  Mihilotski,  of  the  24th  Ills.,  to  take  their 
commands  to  a  position  some  distance  from  the  town, 
which  they  did.  The  19th  Ills,  and  the  18th  Ohio  were 
left  in  the  town,  and  the  men  of  those  Regiments  say 
that  Col.  Turchin  rode  among  them  and  remarked  to 


S.  R.  Patton.  Co.  K. 
Richland.  Ind. 


24  M15STOKY   OF  TIIK   TI 1 1  KT  Y-SK  V  K  NTH 

the  boys:  "I  sec  nothing:  for  two  hours."  Whether  he 
said  that  or  not  is  not  certainly  known,  but  it  is  certain 
that  at  the  expiration  of  the  two  hours  there  was  not 
much  of  value  to  be  seen  in  Athens.  Not  during  all  the 
remainder  of  the  war  was  such  wanton  destruction  of 
property  seen  by  those  men 

Men  who  had  been  sleeping  in  the  mud,  laid  tine 
broadcloth  on  the  ground  that  night  and  slept  on  it. 
Everything  of  value  was  carried  out  of  dry  goods  stores, 
jewelry  stores  and  drug  stores.  Will  Scott,  of  Co.  K, 
bought  a  line  gold  watch  of  one  of  the  19th  Ills,  men  for 
a  few  dollars  of  Confederate  scrip,  which  he  got  at 
Huntsville.  The  sidewalks  of  the  town  were  almost 
covered  with  dry  goods.  A  19th  Ills,  man  (not  Gov. 
Chase,  who  belonged  to  the  19th),  who  evidently  would 
not  have  plea-dcd  not  guilty  to  the  charge  of  assisting  in 
the  sacking  of  Athens,  is  described  as  follows  by  a  37th 
Ind.  soldier: 

The  "sucker"  had  evidently  been  at  a  drug  store. 
He  was  tall  and  slender,  and  had  dressed  himself  in  a 
line  pair  of  cloth  pants,  a  vest  and  boots,  and  a  striped 
pigeon-tailed  coat  far  too  big  for  him  at  the  shoulders, 
but  too  short,  the  tails  of  the  coat  only  coming  to  his 
waist.  He  also  wore  a  silk  stove  pipe  hat,  around 
which  he  had  wrapped  one  end  of  a  richly-colored 
ribbon,  three  inches  in  width,  the  rest  of  the  bolt  of 
ribbon  streaming  out  behind  him  as  he  swaggered  and 
staggered  up  the  street  singing  "The  girl  I  left  behind 
me."  He  had  started  out  "to  make  treason  odious,  and 
to  let  the  proud  rebels  of  Athens  know  that  while  the 
soldiers  of  the  Union  were  always  obedient  to  orders 
and  deferential  to  ladies,  they  could  resent  insults  when 
so  minded."  It  is  doubtful  if  any  Northern  soldier 
during  the  war,  did  more  to  offend  and  disgust  Southern 
ladies  than  did  this  19th  Ills,  soldier;  and  that  was  just 


LIEUT. -COLONEL  W.  D.  WARD 


INDIANA   VOLUNTEER   INFANTRY.  25 

what  he  wanted  to  do.  The  sacking  of  Athens  has  often 
been  condemned  even  by  men  in  the  North,  but  whether 
it  was  right  or  wrong,  it  had  a  good  effect  on  the  rebels, 
and  was  about  what  those  Athenian  rebels  deserved. 
For  the  first  year  or  two  our  armies  dealt  entirely  too 
leniently  with  them. 

The  18th  Ohio  had  been  left  there  to  guard  the 
town,  protect  rebel  property,  which  it  most  faithfully 
did.  While  doing  this  they  were  insulted  in  almost 
every  conceivable  way,  even  tired  upon  by  citizens  from 
houses  that  soldiers  were  guarding.  News  was  sent  to  a 
large  rebel  force  to  come  and  kill  and  capture  their 
protectors.  After  Athens  was  looted,  no  other  Southern 
town  mistreated  any  of  the  Regiments  of  Turchin's 
Brigade.  Southerners  simply  called  them  "Turchin's 
thieves." 

The  Nineteenth  Illinois  Regiment  did  not  do  all  the 
plundering  that  was  done  at  Athens,  for  many  men  of 
the  Thirty-seventh  Indiana  and  Twenty-fourth  Illinois, 
got  into  the  town  and  took  a  hand  in  the  work.  After 
wards,  when  the  General  commanding  called  the  officers 
of  these  Regiments  to  account  for  the  conduct  of  their 
commands,  Col.  Gazley  convinced  him  that  the  only 
part  that  the  Thirty-seventh  Regiment  took  in  the 
business  was  the  taking  by  a  few  men  of  a  little 
molasses  out  of  a  store  that  was  broken  into.  Thus 
the  37th  escaped  with  a  slight  reprimand,  while  the  24th 
Ills.,  and  especially  the  19th  Ills.,  received  pretty  severe 
punishment.  Ever  afterwards  when  the  24th  Ills,  would 
meet  the  37th,  they  would  say  in  their  soft  German 
(it  was  a  German  Regiment),  to  the  37th :  "Molasses." 

While  at  Athens,  most  of  the  Brigade  camped  in  the 
amphitheater  of  the  race  track  for  a  few  days,  and  the 
sports  had  great  fun  running  the  cavalry  horses,  which 
a  general  order  promptly  stopped.  While  at  Athens 


26  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

the  37th  started  one  morning  to  meet  a  provision  train 
and  escort  it  into  camp.  The  distance  from  Athens  was 
more  than  twenty  miles. 

We  arrived  at  our  destination  that  evening  and  ate 
supper  just  as  the  sun  was  sinking  out  of  sight.  Just 
then  a  messenger  arrived  on  a  horse  fleaked  with  foam, 
with  orders  for  the  Regiment  to  march  back  with  all 
haste  to  Athens,  as  an  attack  was  expected  the  next 
morning.  Back  the  tired  men  started,  and  after  march 
ing  all  night,  got  back  to  camp  the  next  morning  at  sun 
up,  having  marched  in  twenty-four  hours  not  much  less 
than  fifty  miles.  The  whole  Brigade  was  formed  in  line 
of  battle  waiting  for  Gen.  Forest,  who  had  wisely 
abandoned  his  contemplated  attack.  Perhaps  no  Regi 
ment  in  either  army  made  a  longer  march  in  twenty-four 
hours  during  the  war  than  that.  Of  course  a  goodly 
number  of  men  fell  out  of  the  ranks  before  reaching 
Athens ;  some  of  them  marched  while  sleeping,  and  be 
coming  weary,  unconsciously  stepped  aside  and  laid 
down  to  sleep. 

About  this  time  forty-nine  men  of  Co.  E,.of  the  37th, 
were  sent  a  few  miles  from  the  main  camp  to  guard  a 
railroad  bridge,  or  rather  a  high  trestle,  at  a  place  now 
called,  I  understand.  Elkins — Lieut.  Frank  Hughes  in 
command.  After  remaining  there  a  few  days,  Capt. 
Connett,  having  joined  his  command,  the  Company  was 
attacked  by  the  15th  Kentucky  Cavalry  and  120  Texas 
Rangers,  numbering  in  all  720  men,  commanded  by  Col. 
Woodward,  of  Kentucky.  After  fighting  fiercely  half 
an  hour  they  surrendered.  The  loss  of  the  enemy  had 
been  so  heavy  that  some  of  them,  from  excessive  anger, 
perhaps,  did  not  cease  firing  until  th-ey  shot  after  the 
surrender  and  severely  wounded  B.  C.  Whitlow,  causing 
him  to  lose  an  eye.  Five  men  of  Company  E,  James 
Jordon,  John  T.  Morgan,  J.  R.  Conner,  A.  ().  Scull  and 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INFANTRY.  27 

Robert  F.  lieaton,  were  kMled,  and  Capt.  Connett,  John 
F.  Wolverton,  Marion  Garrett,  James  Hanger,  James 
Tillison  and  perhaps  others  were  wounded.  Captain 
Connett  was  wounded  seven  limes  before  he  surren 
dered.  Indeed,  he  did  not  surrender;  he  was  simply 
overpowered.  The  rebels  lost  forty  in  killed  and 
wounded,  losing  a  man  for  every  man  they  killed  or 
wounded  or  captured.  Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  the 
fight  was  very  fierce,  and  creditable  to  Co.  E,  the  Thirty- 
seventh  Regiment,  and  all  Indiana  soldiers. 

The  captured  men  were  taken  to  Tuscaloosa,  thence 
to  Montgomery,  and  thence  to  Macon,  Ga.,  where  they 
remained  prisoners  five  months  before  they  were 
exchanged,  and  returned  to  their  Regiment  All  came 
back  more  determined  than  before  to  crush  treason  and 
rebellion,  and  restore  the  Union.  It  is  seldom  that 
greater  bravery  is  displayed  than  was  displayed  by  the 
men  of  that  comparry  on  that  occasion. 


CHAPTER  FIVE 

Marching   Back  to   Fayetteville  and  Thence  to  Chatta 
nooga— Capt.  W.  D.  Ward  Captured. 

Sometime  in  May  the  Regiment  returned  to  Fay 
etteville,  Tenn.  A  number  of  Regiments  besides  those 
of  our  Brigade  were  collected  there  for  a  raid  on  Chat 
tanooga,  Tenn.  The  37th  was  commanded  by  Col. 
Gazley  and  Col.  Ward.  We  marched  across  the 
mountains  to  the  Sequatchie  Valley,  and  from  thence 
across  the  Cumberland  Mountains  to  the  Tennessee 
river,  and  in  sight  of  Chattanooga. 

A  battery  was  placed  on  a  spur  of  the  mountain  and 
opened  tire  on  the  city,  and  a  body  of  Infantry  formed 
on  the  bank  of  the  river  and  iired  across  it  at  the  troops 
on  the  other  side.  The  next  day  we  were  ordered  back 
to  Stevenson,  Ala.,  to  which  place  we  went,  and  the 
37th  Avas  distributed  along  the  railroad  to  guard  bridges 
across  Crow  Creek,  with  headquarters  at  Stevenson. 
Occasionally  detachments  were  sent  to  patrol  and 
guard  the  banks  of  the  Tennessee  river. 

I  believe  it  was  on  the  3rd  day  of  July,  1862,  while 
Col.  Ward  was  in  command  of  one  of  these  detachments, 
guarding  the  bank  of  the  Tennessee  river,  that  he  was 
captured.  He  had  learned  that  the  Confederates  had  a 
large  amount  of  corn  and  some  horses. on  an  island  just 
below  him,  and  he  determined  to  capture  them  if 
possible.  Xo  boats  being  on  the  north  side  of  the  river, 
W.  IX  El  rod  and  another  soldier  swam  the  river  after 


INDIANA    VOLUNTEER   INFANTRY.  29 

dark  and  brought  over  an  old  dug-out.  Col.  Ward  and 
El  rod,  with  nothing  on  but  pants  and  shirt,  crossed  the 
river.  The  Colonel  crawled  cautiously  up  the  bank. 
In  attempting  to  return  his  boat  struck  an  obstacle  near 
the  bank,  and  the  noise  aroused  the  guards,  who  cap 
tured  him.  He  said  his  captors  treated  him  kindly, 
gave  him  an  old  straw  hat  and  a  pair  of  shoes.  The 
guard  who  captured  him  and  an  officer  took  him  to 
Gen.  Heath,  at  Chattanooga.  While  on  the  way  there 
an  old  lady  came  running  to  see  him,  and  after  looking 
at  him  a  few  moments,  said :  "You  can't  fool  me.  He's 
no  Yankee."  Turning  to  the  officer,  who  wore  a  blue 
coat,  she  said :  "You  are  the  Yankee,"  and  would  con 
sent  to  nothing  else.  He  was  placed  in  the  guard  house 
with  some  rebel  soldiers.  The  next  day  his  men  on  the 
north  side  of  the  river  sent  over  to  him  his  uniform  under 
a  flag  of  truce,  after  which  the  Colonel  said  he  was 
given  the  liberty  of  the  camp  on  his  patrol.  He  was 
taken  from  there  to  Knoxville,  to  Gen.  Kirby  Smith. 
The  Colonel  said  he  got  permission  while  at  Knoxville 
to  purchase  a  long  linen  coat  and  cap  with  which  he 
concealed  his  identity,  and  thus  escaped  criticisms  and 
many  insults  from  citizens  and  soldiers. 

From  there  he  was  taken  to  Madison,  Ga.,  and  his 
guards  were  ordered  to  protect  him  from  all  insults  and 
injuries,  which  they  did.  This  special  favor,  his  captors 
informed  him,  was  granted  because  of  his  kindness  to 
citizens  and  prisoners  at  Huntsville  while  he  was  in 
command  at  that  place  of  which  they  had  heard.  Sev 
eral  persons  who  had  been  the  recipients  of  his  kindness 
called  on  him  and  thanked  him,  and  one  old  gentleman 
gave  him  a  bottle  of  wine,  which  the  Colonel  accepted, 
but  being  a  strict  temperance  man,  turned  over  to  Con 
federates  to  drink.  He  remained  in  that  prison  till 
October,  and  was  taken  to  Richmond,  where  he  was 


30 


HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRT Y-S.EVENTll 


exchanged.  After  spending-  some  time  with  his  family 
and  friends,  he  returned  to  his  command  at  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  about  the  middle  of  December. 

As  before  stated,  the  Thirty-seventh  Regiment  was 
scattered  along  the  river  and  railroads,  and  it  would  be 
impossible  to  give  a  history  of  its  acts  for  some  weeks 
without  giving  a  history  of  each  company.  They  had 
during  that  time  many  strange  adventures  and  funny 
experiences.  Thus,  one  night  when  Co.  K  was  camped 
in  a  cave  of  the  mountain  at  Stevenson,  guarding  a  large 

spring  of  water  and  the 
water  tank,  after  all  but 
the  one  sentinel  was 
wrapped  in  sleep,  he 
called  for  the  "Corporal 
of  the  guard"  so  loud  as 
to  awake  every  one  in 
the  camp.  The  mountain 
on  every  side  but  the 
front  made  it  very  dark. 

Right  close  to  the  rear 
of  the   camp,  at  the   foot 
of    the    mountain,    some 
beast  was   heard  making 
w.  N.  Stewart.  Quartermaster  Ser-      a  great  noise,  rather  more 
geant.  Richiand,  ind.  like  a   vicious  snort  than 

a  growl,  but  really  frightful.  Capt.  McK.ee  called  on 
every  man  to  come  forth  armed  to  defend  the  camp. 

The  most  incredulous  could  not  doubt  that  a  large, 
ravenous  and  fearless  beast  had  come  down  the  mountain 
in  search  of  prey.  The  thought  of  an  Indiana  soldier 
being  killed  by  a  wild  beast  from  the  Cumberland 
Mountains  caused  feelings  of  both  fear  and  shame  to 
agitate  our  breasts.  To  abandon  the  camp  was  not  to 
be  thought  of  for  a  moment.  So  the  Captain's  call  was 


^^m 

PMn 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INFANT  It  V.  31 

responded  to  with  alacrity.  Though  it  was  so  dark 
that  no  one  could  see  anything,  yet  every  man 
grabbed  his  gun,  and  fixing  his  bayonet,  began  with 
thumping  heart  to  move  cautiously  toward  the  beast 
that  was  snorting  and  growling  but  a  few  steps  away. 
At  last  one  man,  feeling  sure  that  he  was  in  reach  of  the 
animal,  and  seeing  its  outline  through  the  darkness, 
lunged  at  it  with  his  bayonet,  and  if  ever  a  hog 
squealed  and  ran,  that  one  did.  The  old  hog  had 
something  the  matter  with 
its  nose  that  caused  it  to 
make  an  ugly,  snarling 
noise. 

So  far  as  can  be 
learned  the  boys  of  the 
other  companies  of  the 
Regiment  put  in  the  time 
guarding  the  river,  rail 
road  bridges,  saluting  offi 
cers  and  passing  trains? 
playing  cards,  catching 
the  ague  and  shaking  til 
about  the  1st  of  Septem 
ber,  when  the  Regiment  John  Johnson.  Co.  H. 
was  collected  at  Cowan,  and  with  the  whole  army 
marched  back  to  Nashville,  Tenn.  But  before  doing  so, 
Cowan  was  badly,  and,  I  thought,  harshly  treated. 
Many  houses  were  set  on  fire,  and  much  property  de 
stroyed,  though  I  believe  the  commanding  officers  did 
what  they  could  to  prevent  it. 

The  army  was  under  strict  discipline  while  at  Nash 
ville,  and  the  guards'  duty  very  heavy.  For  several 
weeks  in  October  and  November  every  able-bodied 
soldier  was  required  to  get  up  at  4  o'clock  in  the  morn 
ing  and  march  out  some  distance  from  the  city,  and 


32  I-ilSTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

stand  in  the  cold  or  rain  till  after  daylight.  Foraging 
and  guard  duty  formed  the  daily  and  nightly  routine  of 
soldier  life  at  Nashville ;  and  the  genuine  soldier  dis 
likes  guard  duty  about  as  much  as  he  likes  foraging 
Not  much  of  eatables  for  man  or  beast  were  left  on  the 
fine  farms  around  Nashville  when  the  army  left  for 
Murfreesboro.  Comrade  John  Morton,  of  Co.  C,  gives 
the  following  humorous  description  of  a  foraging  expe 
dition  in  which  he  was  engaged.  He  says : 

"While  the  37th  was  quartered  in  the  railroad 
depot  at  Nashville  during  the 
fall  of  '62,  doing  garrison  duty 
while  (yen.  Bragg  made  his 
famous  raid  into  Kentucky, 
it  was  our  custom  to  frequently 
make  trips  out  into  the  country, 
sometimes  by  way  of  the  "Grany 
White"  pike ;  but  on  this  oc 
casion  we  went  out  on  the 
"Hardie"  road.  Our  duties 
were  to  procure  forage  for 
both  man  and  beast.  It  was  my 

John  Morton,  Co.  C.  iuck         (you        may         ca]]          jt 

Pueblo.  Col.  „    " 

good  fortune — I  don't)  to  cap 
ture  a  Billy  goat;  also  some  cornmeal,  and  after  return 
ing  to  camp  we  managed  to  get  one  of  those  "Dutch 
ovens"  with  its  heavy  lid,  in  order  to  properly  bake 
our  cornmeal  pone.  We  accordingly  prepared  the 
batch,  and  to  make  it  as  rich  as  possible  mixed  in  large 
quantities  of  the  fat  of  the  goat  after  baking,  being 
very  hungry.  Oh,  what  a  feast!  You  all  know  that 
one  of  the  peculiarities  of  those  Dutch  ovens  is  to  pre 
serve  all  of  the  "aroma"  of  its  contents.  Suffice  it  to 
say  I  have  not  been  subject  to  any  contagious  diseases 
since  that  memorable  evening  in  the  fall  of  1862." 


CHAPTER  SIX 

The   Battle  of  Stone  River  on  the   31st— Fighting  Be 
gins—Men  Piled  Knapsacks. 

On  the  26th  of  December,  1862,  the  Regiment  and 
about  all  the  army  received  orders  to  march  on  to  Mur- 
t'reesboro.  That  was  understood  by  all  to  mean  a 
battle,  for  it  was  well  known  that  a  large  force  of  the 
enemy  was  there.  Everything  went  on  smoothly  until 
about  dark  of  the  29th  day  of  December,  when  we 
found  ourselves  in  close  proximity  to  the  enemy.  A 
strange  and  indescribably  solemn  feeling  always  per 
vades  an  army  when  it  knows  that  it  is  in  the  imme 
diate  neighborhood  of  a  strong  and  brave  foe.  Without 
knowing  it,  men  converse  in  a  lower  tone  of  voice,  and 
words  and  actions  which  on  ordinary  occasions  would 
not  be  noticed,  become  exceedingly  funny  and  ridicu 
lous.  The  next  day,  Dec.  30th,  was  spent  in  forming  the 
battle  lines  and  skirmishing  with  the  enemy,  which 
seemed  rather  to  invite  than  evade  the  attack. 

We  lay  that  night  in  our  cold,  cheerless  bivouac, 
and  before  daylight  on  the  morning  of  the  31st.  were  up 
and  in  line  of  battle  waiting  for  the  enemy.  Not  long 
did  we  wait.  It  was  scarcely  clear  daylight  when  on 
our  right  the  awful  roar  of  cannon,  and  the  sharp  rattle 
of  thousands  of  rifles  told  us  plainly  that  the  battle  had 
begun,  and  in  a  very  short  time  the  great  crowd  of 
demoralized  soldiers  running  to  the  rear,  announced 
that  disaster  had  occurred  on  that  part  of  our  line. 


34  insTouv  OF  THE 


Then  the  men  were  ordered  to  pile  their  knapsacks  that 
they  might  be  the  better  prepared  for  the  fray,  which 
was  done.  Then  it  was  ordered  into  a  cedar  thicket  to 
check,  and  hold  in  check  the  advancing  enemy. 

The  Regiment  had  scarcely  got  into  position  when 
the  Confederates,  flushed  with  their  success  on  our 
right,  assailed  the  Thirty  -seventh  with  all  the  pride  and 
determination  of  the  Southern  soldiers.  The  conflict 
was  fierce,  close  and  bloody.  It  seemed  for  a  time  that 
the  enemy  would  sweep  our  brave  men  from  the  field, 
but  the  brave  fellows  stood  and  poured  volley  after 
volley  into  their  lines,  and  taught  them  to  approach 
more  cautiously  that  part  of  the  army  of  the  Union. 

Failing  to  drive  our  brave  boys  from  their  position, 
the  enemy  —  a  rebel  brigade  on  our  left,  marched  out  of 
an  open  woods,  and  fronting  on  our  left  flank  prepared 
to  charge  us.  To  meet  this,  the  left  company  of  the 
Thirty-seventh  changed  front  to  face  the  enemy,  and 
the  Seventy-fourth  Ohio,  commanded  by  Col.  Granville 
Moody,  formed  on  the  left  of  this  company,  and  gave 
the  enemy  such  a  reception  as  they  had  not  expected, 
and  such  a  one  as  made  them  move  cautiously  in  the 
future.  Col.  Moody  was  an  old  Methodist  preacher,  and 
as  they  began  the  advance  on  the  enemy,  he,  swinging 
his  sword  high  over  his  head,  shouted  at  the  top  of  his 
voice:  "Come  on,  Christian  brethern,"  and  right  gal 
lantly  did  his  men  follow  him. 

Just  about  this  time  the  rebel  column  in  front  of 
the  Thirty-seventh  renewed  their  attack  most  fiercely, 
and  the  battle  also  raged  furiously  on  the  left  company 
and  on  the  Seventy-fourth  Ohio.  Our  brave  men  were 
falling  fast,  but  the  survivors  would  not  yield  a  single 
inch.  The  rebel  brigade  that  moved  on  our  left  had 
passed  on  till  it  came  to  the  front  of  the  Twenty-first 
Ohio,  which  was  armed  with  Colt's  revolving  rifles,  and 


INDIANA  VOLrxTEKK   IXFAXTlfV.  35 

lay  concealed  in  a  thicket.  When  that  Regiment 
opened  on  them  they  laid  down,  but  not  being  able  to 
endure  the  merciless  fire,  broke  and  ran  in  confusion, 
leaving  many  of  their  number  on  the  field.  While  the 
fighting  at  this  point  was  at  the  fiercest — when  shot  and 
shell  and  minnie  balls  were  flying  thickest,  an  Irishman 
of  the  Seventy-fourth  Ohio  said  to  Col.  Moody  :  "Colonel, 
you  have  been  fighting  the  devil  for  twenty  years,  and 
don't  you  think  hell  has  broke  loose  now?'' 

The  rebel  line  in  our  front  was  driven  back  t\vo  or 
three  different  times,  and  rallied  and  came  again.  Then 
the  Thirty-seventh  was  ordered  back  for  some  reason, 
passing  over  ground  that  had  been  fought  over  by 
troops  in  its  rear,  unknown  to  the  Regiment.  As  the 
Regiment  was  going  back  Col.  Hull  was  wounded  and 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Ward  took  command,  and  led  the 
Regiment  back  and  supplied  it  with  ammunition,  and 
took  position  with  the  reserve. 

Perhaps  the  Thirty -seventh  never  did  harder  fight 
ing  than  it  did  at  that  time  and  place.  Three  times  the 
rebels  charged  it,  and  three  times  were  repulsed.  Most 
men  of  the  Thirty-seventh  fired  sixty  rounds  while  there. 
The  horses  of  Col.  Hull,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Ward  and 
Major  Kimble  were  all  killed  or  disabled  there.  As  the 
rebels  charged  our  line  and  received  our  fire,  men  could 
be  seen  stumbling  and  falling  dead  or  wounded.  The 
loss  of  the  Thirty-seventh  at  that  point  was  very  heavy. 
No  Regiment  in  that  great  and  good  army  behaved 
better  than  the  Thirty-seventh  did.  Col.  Ward  says : 

"This  was  the  gloomiest  time  I  ever  remember  to  have 
experienced.  We  had  had  a  very  bloody  engagement ; 
we  knew  quite  a  number  had  been  killed  and  many 
more  had  been  wounded,  but  of  the  many  not  'present' 
we  could  not  tell  who  were  killed  or  wounded. 
The  right  of  the  army  had  been  broken;  yes,  routed, 


36  HISTORY  OF  THE  f HLRTY-SEVE^TTl 

and  not  knowing1  how  it  happened,  we  did  not  know 
what  to  expect.  The  lines  were  reformed  in  the  shape 
of  an  immense  horse-shoe,  but  would  not  that  part  of  the 
army  which  had  been  driven  once,  break  again  if  as 
sailed  again?  These  reflections  made  the  outlook 
gloomy,  indeed." 

The  night  passed  with  slight  skirmishing,  and  the 
next  day  both  armies  seemed  more  cautious  and  the 
conflict  was  less  deadly.  But  it  was  evident  the  next 
morning  that  the  conflict  would  be  tierce  and  perhaps 
decisive.  A  train  arrived  with  rations,  and  the  Thirty- 
seventh,  which  had  little  to  eat  for  two  days,  the  officers 
faring  no  better  than  the  men,  were  supplied  with  flour. 
This  was  mixed  in  water  into  dough,  and  cooked  on  hot 
rocks  as  best  it  could  be  and  eaten.  Meat  was  roasted 
or  eaten  raw  with  a  relish.  While  trying  to  satisfy  the 
cravings  of  hunger  the  Regiment  was  ordered  into  line 
and  to  double  quick  over  to  the  left  to  meet  an  expected 
charge.  Arriving  at  that  point  the  Regiment  found 
about  sixty  cannon  there  and  in  position,  behind  which 
a  short  distance  the  Regiment  took  position. 

In  a  few  minutes  the  Confederates  under  Gen. 
Breckenridge  fiercely  assailed  the  Federal  lines  south  of 
Stone  River  and  drove  them  back  to  it.  Here  they 
were  met  by  our  division — Negley's,  and  some  other 
troops,  and  after  severe  fighting  were  turned  back, 
and  driven  by  our  forces  until  night  closed  the  fighting. 
During  the  night  a  rain  set  in,  and  Stone  River  rose 
rapidly  and  that  part  of  our  army  that  was  on  the 
south  side  of  the  river,  being  liable  to  be  cut  off,  by 
reason  of  high  water,  from  the  rest  of  the  army,  and 
thus  left  to  contend  with  the  whole  rebeled  army,  was 
moved  back  to  the  north  side  of  the  river.  That  was  a 
dark,  dismal  night,  the  men  without  fire  or  covering^ 
lying  on  the  ground  while  a  cold  rain  poured  down 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INFANTRY.  37 

upon  them.  But  like  true  soldiers,  they  bore  it  man 
fully,  and  when  daylight  came,  cheerfully  ate  their 
coarse  food  and  stood  ready  for  whatever  duty  or  trial 
the  day  might  have  in  store  for  them. 

Desultory  lighting  continued  throughout  the  day, 
and  towards  evening  it  was  evident  that  the  enemy  was 
massing  troops  at  some  point  preparatory  to  making  a 
night  attack.  There  was  some  lively  skirmishing  that 
night  and  the  rebels  were  driven  at  many  points,  but 
there  was  no  general  engagement.  The  Thirty-seventh 
Ind.  camped  that  night  just  south  of  town  in  a  clover 
field,  and  the  rebel  army  slipped  away  under  cover  of 
the  darkness.  The  battle  had  been  fought  and  won  and 
the  Federal  Army  was  victorious,  but  at  a  fearful  sacri 
fice  of  life. 

The  loss  of  the  Thirty-seventh  was  heavy.  It  went 
into  the  battle  with  456  officers  and  men,  156  of  whom 
were  either  killed  or  wounded.  The  loss  of  the  Federal 
Army  was  1,500  killed  and  something  over  7,000 
wounded.  The  Confederate  loss  was  even  greater. 
Rosecrans  said  his  army  numbered  43,000,  Bragg's  army 
was  larger,  but  just  what  the  number  was  is  not  known. 

The  Thirty-seventh  Ind.  and  the  other  Regiments  of 
the  State  and  of  other  States,  proved  in  that  battle  that 
the  citizen  soldiers  of  the  peace-loving  North  were  not 
inferior  to  the  best  soldiers  the  world  ever  produced. 
The  Thirty-seventh  was  the  first  Regiment  in  Mur- 
freesboro.  Col.  Hull,  of  the  Thirty -seventh  Ind.,  was 
severely  wounded  early  in  the  engagement,  and  Lieu 
tenant-Colonel  Ward,  who  commanded  the  Regiment 
after  the  Colonel  was  disabled,  had  his  horse  shot  from 
under  him,  got  a  bullet  hole  through  his  overcoat  and 
had  a  minnie  ball  to  graze  his  chin,  but  was  not 
seriously  hurt. 


CHAPTER  SEVEN 

Guarding     Murfreesboro— A     Raid— Sunstroke- Hanging 
Two  Men. 

The  37th  Regiment  remained  near  town  for  some 
time,  acting-  as  provost  guard. 
Provost  duty — guarding  houses 
and  private  property,  policing 
camp,  blacking  old  shoes,  wear 
ing  white  gloves  at  inspections 
is  just  what  the  hardy  and 
honorable  volunteer  soldiers, 
especially  lloosier  soldiers, 
abominates.  Hut  the  Thirty- 
seventh  did  all  these  distaste 
ful  duties  well,  but  was  always 
glad  when  called  to  go  on  a 

Joseph  Blair,  Co.  K,  scout  or  raid  of  some  kind. 
Rushviiie,  ind.  One  timo  w},ije  the  Hegiment 

was  at  Murfreesboro,  it  and  a  Michigan  Regiment  were 
ordered  out  on  a  scout  some  fifteen  miles  from  that 
town.  The  Thirty -seventh  took  the  advance  going,  and 
the  Michigan  Regiment  was  accorded  that  position  as 
we  returned.  Nothing  of  any  consequence  came  of  the 
raid  and  after  eating  dinner,  both  Regiments  started 
back  to  camp. 

The  Thirty -seventh  took  the  advance  on  returning 
for  a  couple  of  miles,  and  stepped  to  one  side  of  the  road 
to  give  the  Michigan  Regiment  a  chance  to  move  to  the 


INDIANA   VOLUNTEER   INFANTRY. 


39 


front.  That  Regiment  had  not  seen  much  hard  service ; 
the  men  were  fat  and  unused  to  hardships,  and  the  day 
was  fearfully  hot.  As  the  men  of  that  Regiment  moved 
through  the  Thirty-seventh  to  the  front,  one  of  its  men 
was  sunstruck,  and  fell  down  by  the  roadside  and  strug 
gled  as  if  he«were  dying.  One  of  his  comrades,  a  large, 
fleshy  man,  who  was  stripped  to  his  shirt,  and  red  as  a 
lobster,  coming  up  and  seeing  the  sunstruck  man  lying 
and  gasping,  asked  "What's  the  matter  with  that  man?" 
On  being  told  "Sunstroke,"  he  said,  wiping  his  brow 
with  his  sleeve :  "I  wish  to 
G — d  I  could  git  one  of  them 
things." 

While  at  Murfreesboro  Chap 
lain  Lozier  was  acting  as 
Division  Postmaster.  There  was 
no  regularity  in  the  coming  or 
going  of  the  mails,  and  conse 
quently  the  inquiries  as  to 
when  the  mail  would  go  out 
became  frequent  and  annoying. 
To  answer  this  inquiry  once 
and  for  all,  the  Chaplain  placed  John  Cowan  First 
on  a  piece  of  pasteboard  in 
large  letters:  "The  Chaplain 
does  not  know  when  the  mail  will  go,"  and  hung  it  in 
front  of  his  tent.  Soon  after,  while  he  was  out  on  busi 
ness,  a  fun-loving,  but  not  overly-pious  soldier,  wrote 
immediately  under  this,  in  the  same  kind  of  letters, 
"Neither  does  he  care  a  damn."  One  can  readily 
imagine  the  surprise  of  the  Chaplain  when  he  returned 
and  saw  the  amendment  the  witty  soldier  had  made  to 
his  notice.  He  could  not  swear,  and  did  not  feel  like 
praying,  and  simply  took  the  notice  down  and  after 
wards  answered  all  questions  by  the  living  voice. 


Sergeant 
Co.  H,  Bath  P.  O..  Franklin 
County.  Indiana. 


40  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

While  at  Murfreesboro,  two  men  who  had  been 
convicted  of  murder  at  McMinville,  Term.,  and  were 
awaiting  execution  in  jail,  were  released  by  Union 
soldiers  who  thought  they  had  been  put  in  there  be 
cause  they  were  Union  men.  When  the  fact  was 
known,  they  were  recaptured  and  put  in -jail  at  Mur 
freesboro,  and  after  a  time  were  hanged  by  the  Thirty- 
seventh.  How  it  became  the  duty  of  the  military  to 
hang  these  men  I  do  not  know,  but  the  Thirty-seventh 
did  it.  On  the  5th  day  of  June,  1863,  the  Regiment 
took  one  of  them,  A.  S.  Selkirk,  to  the  scaffold.  He 
was  placed  on  his  coffin  in  an  army  wagon  and  taken 
into  a  woods,  guarded  by  a  large  detachment  of  the 
Thirty-seventh  Tnd.  There  the  gallows  had  been 
erected,  and  a  rope  swung  from  a  beam  above.  The 
wagon  was  driven  under  this  and  stopped  so  that  the 
hind  end  gate  of  the  wagon,  when  let  down  horizontally, 
would  be  under  the  cross  beam.  Nearly  every  soldier 
in  the  army  who  was  not  on  duty,  had  got  a  pass  to  go 
and  see  the  man  hanged.  Such  a  sight  is  seldom  ever 
seen  and  not  less  than  10,000  men  were  there. 

Every  tree  near  the  gallows  that  could  be  climbed 
was  almost  covered  with  soldiers  sitting  on  the  limbs. 
Thousands  surged  around  the  wagon.  The  Thirty- 
seventh  had  to  fix  bayonets  and  drive  them  back.  It 
then  formed  a  "hollow  square"  and  the  poor  mortal 
walked  out  on  the  end  gate,  was  bound  hand  and  foot, 
and  after  prayer  by  a  Chaplain,  was  swung  into 
eternity.  A  young  lady,  whose  father  this  man  had 
killed  for  money,  stood  close  to  the  drop,  and  a  smile 
played  on  her  face  as  the  man  struggled  in  death.  The 
other  condemned  man  was  hanged  from  the  same 
gallows  a  few  days  afterwards. 


MAJOR  THOMAS  V.  KIMBELL. 

(Deceased) 


CHAPTER  EIGHT 

Tullahoma   Campaign— A  Gambling  Mania-Col.  Hull   De 
tailed—Brigade  Stampeded  by  a  Cow. 

Bragg's  army  was  holding  a  position  on  Duck  River, 
and  we  were  all  glad  when  orders  came  to  advance. 
On  the  24th  of  June,  1863,  we  struck  tents  and  started 
with  our  division  (Negley's)  and  the  rest  of  the  army  to 
hunt  Bragg.  He  was  not  hard  to  find,  and  though  there 
was  some  sharp  lighting  at  Hoover's  Gap,  the  Thirty- 
seventh  was  not  engaged.  We  laid  in  a  wheat  field 
the  next  night,  and  the  boys  slept  on  wheat  shocks  for 
bedding. 

On  the  2(>th  we  camped  at  Beech  Grove,  and  on  the 
27th  Negley's  division  went  on  a  reconnoissance  several 
miles  to  a  farm  house,  where  we  remained  about  an  hour 
and  returned.  The  next  day  the  enemy  was  found  just 
where  we  had  been  the  day  before.  Our  Regiment, 
with  all  of  Thomas'  corps,  arrived  at  Manchester  about 
midnight  From  thence  we  went  to  Tullahoma,  and  on 
the  night  of  the  28th  or  29th,  lay  in  an  open  Held  with  a 
dense  woods  in  front  of  us.  In  the  morning  we  wen- 
called  into  line  of  battle,  and  formed  near  the  edge  of 
the  woods. 

The  artillerymen  were  burnishing  their  guns;  field 
olHcers  were  riding  hurriedly  from  point  to  point,  and 
the  skirmishers  in  the  dense  forest  were  firing  quite 
briskly  and  everything  looked  as  if  a  battle  were  immi 
nent.  But  there  was  no  battle  and  we  marched  on.  About 
Julv  1st  the  Thirty-seventh  made  a  forced  march  of 


42  HISTORY   OK  TIIK  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

some  miles  to  re-inforce  the  first  Brigade  of  our  division, 
which  was  sharply  engaged.  We  double-quicked  in  the 
direction  of  the  firing  beneath  a  broiling  sun,  and  many 
men  were  overcome  with  the  heat.  We  saw  a  large 
number  of  dead  and  wounded,  but  did  no  fighting.  It 
looked  strange  to  see  our  boys  hunting  and  eating 
huckleberries  in  the  open  woods  where  we  were  and 
where  several  poor,  wounded  soldiers  lay  and  suffered. 

We  here  became  impressed  with  the  fact  that  Bragg 
had  evacuated  Tullahoma  and  was  trying  to  get  his 
army  across  the  Cumberland  mountains.  It  was  shortly 
after  leaving  Tullahoma  that  rations  gave  out  and  the 
boys,  as  Xegley  rode  past,  said  in  loud  tones:  ''Hard 
tack,"  and  he  showed  so  much  temper.  We  crossed  the 
river  on  a  dilapidated  old  bridge,  and  camped  for  a 
short  time  where  our  cavalry  had  had  a  sharp  skirmish. 
Several  Confederate  dead  were  yet  where  they  fell  near 
a  farm  house. 

Leroy  Roberts,  of  Co.  F,  and  a  few  others  took  in 
the  sights  at  that  place,  and  say  they  were  sad,  indeed. 
We  reached  Decliard,  Tenn  ,  the  3d  day  of  July,  and 
were  ordered  into  camp.  No  one  can  tell  just  how  tired 
the  men  were.  They  had  marched  and  counter-marched 
through  rain  and  mud  for  nearly  two  weeks,  and  slept 
like  hogs  in  mud  and  water  and  that  order  was  greatly 
enjoyed  and  cheerfully  obeyed.  On  the  morning  of  the 
Fourth  of  July,  1863,  as  the  army  was  quietly  resting, 
the  deep  boom  of  cannon  was  heard  in  the  distance,. and 
all  expected  to  be  called  immediately  to  fall  in  and 
move  to  the  scene  of  conflict,  when  an  officer  rode  into 
camp  and  said  that  Vicksburg  had  fallen  into  the  hands 
of  the  Union  army,  and  that  the  Eastern  army  had 
gained  a  glorious  victory  at  Gettysburg.  No  one 
enjoyed  victories  and  news  of  victories  more  than  the 
soldier  boys,  and  the  day  was  one  of  hilarity.  Victories 


INDIANA   VOLUNTEKR    INFANTRY.  43 

brightened  the  prospect,  sometimes  exceedingly  dim,  of 
returning-  to  home  and  friends  and  peace,  all  in  a  loved 
and  united  country. 

While  at  Dechard  the  mail  arrived  and  brought 
news  of  home  and  of  the  Morgan  raid  through  Indiana. 
At  this  place  the  Regiment  was  put  under  strict  army 
regulations — company  and  regimental  drill,  dress  parade, 
policing  grounds,  guard  duty,  brightening  guns,  etc.  And, 
strange  as  it  may  seem,  here  under  this  strict  discipline 
the  soldiers  developed  such  a  passion  for  gambling  that 
the  officers  felt  it  to  be  their  duty  to  suppress  it,  if 
possible.  After  orders  forbidding  gambling  had  been 
issued,  the  men  would  slip  out  and  throw  dice  by  moon 
light.  One  night  a  little  squad  of  guards  were  taken  out 
of  camp  and  deployed  as  skirmishers,  and  three  or  four 
soldiers  were  caught  who  had  been  gambling.  Digging 
stumps  was  the  penalty.  How  strict  regulations,  army 
discipline  and  full  rations  developed  this  disposition  to 
gamble,  is  something  it  is  not  the  province  of  the  writer 
hereof  to  account  for.  The  fact  is  simply  stated. 

\Yhile  we  were  at  Dechard,  about  the  1st  of  August, 
1863,  Col.  Hull  was  detailed  to  act  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  to  examine  applicants  for  positions  as  officers  of 
colored  troops.  The  Board  was  located  at  Xashville, 
Tenn.,  and  he  went  to  the  duty  assigned  him.  This 
left  Lieutenant-Colonel  Ward  in  command  of  the 
Regiment.  Col.  Hull  never  returned  to  the  Regiment, 
and  Col.  Ward  commanded  it  till  it  was  discharged  by 
reason  of  expiration  of  time  of  service.  I  may  be  per 
mitted  to  say  that  few,  if  any  Colonels,  retired  from  the 
service  so  generally  esteemed  and  liked  by  the  men  of 
their  Regiments  as  did  Col.  Ward.  It  must  be  a  com 
fort  to  him  in  his  old  days  to  know  that  his  comrades 
regarded,  and  still  regard  him,  as  pure,  just,  impartial 
and  sufficiently  brave  to  have  gone  with  them  to  certain 


-44  HISTORY   OF  THK  THIRT  Y-SKV  KNTH 

death  if  duty  required  it.  We  left  this  camp  the  17th 
of  August,  and  marched  on  the  railroad  to  Cowan 
Station,  a  few  miles  distant.  There  we  crossed  the 
Cumberland  mountain.  All  rilled  their  canteens  in  the 
afternoon  before  they  started  up,  and  marched  hard  and 
steadily  till  dusk,  when  the  top  was  reached.  The  next 
day  we  descended  on  the  other  side,  and  returned  to  the 
railroad  at  the  point  where  the  train,  which  carried 
many  of  our  Regiment,  was  tired  on  Sept.  1st,  1862, 
nearly  one  year  before.  The  Regiment  went  into  camp 
on  the  evening  of  the  18th,  near  a  place  where  a  part  of 
the  Regiment  had  guarded  bridges  and  water  tanks  for 
several  weeks  a  year  before.  Notwithstanding  the 
strict  orders  against  leaving  camp  without  a  permit, 
some  of  the  men  did  leave,  and  were  gone  some  time  in 
search  of  "the  girl  they  left  behind  them"  when  they 
left  there  a  year  ago.  Some  of  the  boys  reported 
progress  when  they  returned,  and  we  are  informed  some 
of  them  afterwards  married  the  girls  when  ''the  cruel 
war  was  over."  But  this  is  only  hearsay,  and,  if  true, 
there  was  no  wrong  done. 

While  on  this  march  many  men  were  greatly 
troubled  with  diarrhea,  and  the  Colonel,  fearing  for 
their  health,  demanded  that  they  should  eat  sparingly  of 
the  green  corn.  He  told  Dr.  J.  R.  Goodwin — regimental 
surgeon,  and  a  noble  man,  what  he  had  done,  and  was 
informed  by  him  that  he  had  made  a  mistake;  that  the 
men  needed  vegetables.  The  Colonel  told  the  men  to  eat 
all  they  could,  which  they  did  and  recovered  rapidly. 

While  marching  toward  our  destination  about  the 
20th  of  August,  the  Regiment  halted  one  day  for  dinner, 
and  remained  there  till  the  next  day,  a  tine  corn-rield 
being  on  our  right.  On  the  left  was  a  steep  mountain, 
which  nothing  could  climb.  The  road  wound  around 
the  foot  of  this  mountain,  and  on  the  right  of  the  road 


INDIANA    VOLrNTKKK    INKANTKY.  45 

was  a  fence  and  corn-Held.  The  guns  were  stacked  in 
the  middle  of  the  road,  and  at  night  the  men  slept  at  the 
edge  of  the  road  on  either  side  of  their  guns.  There 
was  no  fear  of  any  enemy,  and  the  sleep  was  sound  and 
sweet.  But  about  midnight  the  wildest,  most  alarming 
shrieks  and  shouts  were  heard  in  the  distance  that 
the  Thirty-seventh  had  ever  heard.  The  trouble  came 
nearer  and  nearer,  and  now  the  awful  and  heaven- 
defying  profanity  and  blasphemy  of  the  excited  men, 
the  falling  of  gun-stacks  and  the  heavy  breathing  and 
snorting  and  jumping  of  a  heavy  animal  were  alarming, 
indeed.  Some  sprang  for  their  guns,  some  from  them, 
and  in  doing  so  seriously  hurt  themselves  on  rocks. 
One  man  actually  climbed  a  tree.  On  came  the  animal, 
running  over  men  and  knocking  down  gun-stacks. 

It  was  a  large  steer  that  had  walked  in  at  the  rear 
of  the  Regiment  and  moved  on  quietly  till  it  tramped  on 
a  sleeping  soldier,  who  kicked,  of  course,  and  set  the 
animal  going  over  men  and  stacks  of  guns,  and  got  the 
most  soundly  cursed  of  any  man  or  beast  in  the  Southern 
Confederacy.  It  had  to  run  the  entire  length  of  the 
Regiment  before  it  escaped,  as  the  mountain  was  on  one 
side  of  the  road  and  the  fence  on  the  other.  After  it 
was  gone  the  men  laughed  and  cursed  and  scolded,  and 
then  like  good  soldiers,  laid  down  again.  Some  of  the 
men  were  hurt  quite  badly  by  jumping  while  half  asleep 
against  the  large  rocks  that  had  fallen  from  the  ledges 
above,  but  so  far  as  is  known  none  of  them  draw  pen 
sions  for  wounds  received  there,  and  this  may  be  some 
comfort  to  those  who  are  so  distressed  about  the  soldiers 
getting  pensions. 

Our  last  camp  before  we  crossed  the  Tennessee  river 
was  near  the  last  of  August.  It  was  uncomfortably  cold 
there  for  several  nights.  While  at  this  camp  we  were 
called  into  line  to  witness  the  punishment  of  two  artillery- 


HISTOHY  OF  THE  THIKTY-8EVENTH 


men,  who,  for  some  offense,  had  the  hair  shaved  off  of 
one  side  of  their  heads,  and  marched  in  front  of  the 
entire  Brigade  with  a  fifer  before  them  playing  "Poor, 
old  soldier/'  and  a  file  of  soldiers  behind  them  with 
bayonets  fixed  in  distressingly  close  proximity  to  their 
seats.  These  same  soldiers  were  conspicuous  in  the 
battle  of  Chickamauga  in  less  than  a  month  after  that 
time,  where  they  did  their  duty  well. 

They  concealed  from  those  who  did  not  belong  to  the 
Brigade    the  evidence    of   the    disgraceful    punishment 

which  had  been  inflicted 
on  them  by  their  officers 
for  some  offense,  by  tying 
up  their  heads  in  white 
cloth  as  if  they  were  sore. 
It  looked  strange  to  see 
men  who  had  so  recently 
been  so  humiliated  by 
their  government's  officers 
fighting  so  bravely  for 
that  government. 

It  was  very  apparent 
that  the  crime  for  which 
they  had  been  punished 
was  not  cowardice.  The 
way  they  fought  in  that 
hell  of  fire  and  smoke  proved  them  to  be  good,  true  and 
brave  American  citizens. 


John  H.  Brown.  Co.  A,  wounded 
Sunday  morning  of  the  Chicka 
mauga  battle.  Greensburg.  Ind. 


CHAPTER  NINE 

The  Chickamauga  Campaign— Crossing  the  River,  Sand  and 

Lookout  Mountain— Skirmishing  and  Fighting— Pigeon 

Mountains— The  Great  Battle  of  Chickamauga. 

About  the  last  of  August,  1863,  a  forward  movement 
was  ordered.   We  reached  .^- — ^ 

the  Tennessee  river  a  few 
miles  below  Stevenson 
the  1st  day  of  September 
in  the  evening-,  and  crossed 
the  river  on  a  pontoon 
bridge  about  midnight. 

The  Tennessee  river 
is  wide,  and  though  it 
was  midnight,  the  bright 
shining  moon  made  every 
thing  look  nicer,  more 
romantic  than  if  all  had 
been  lighted  by  the  King 
of  day.  A  man  was  in  H.  j.  steward,  Co.  A. 

each    little  Skiff   O11  which  Letts' Corner,.  lad. 

the  bridge  rested  to  bail  out  the  water.  The  mellow 
moonlight  shining  on  the  peaceful  waters  and  shores  of 
the  river,  made  the  brightly  burnished  rifles  of  the  men 
and  the  swords  of  the  officers  look  all  the  more  terrible 
and  out  of  harmony  with  the  kind  and  gentle  surround 
ings  of  nature.  The  putting  of  a  great  river  behind  us 
as  we  went  farther  into  the  enemy's  country,  increased 
the  danger.  Hut  we  were  soldiers,  and  these  thoughts 


•48  IIISTOKY   OF  THE  TTIIKT Y-SKVENTII 

were  soon  put  out  of  mind.  We  all  got  over  in  good 
order  and  slept  soundly  on  the  Southern  shore  till  morn 
ing.  Then  we  marched  a  few  miles  up  the  river  to  a 
place  where  we  were  to  cross  Sand  mountain. 

We  rested  at  the  foot  of  that  mountain  till  next 
morning,  the  3d,  and  then  started  up  it.  The  mountain 
was  steep  and  the  road  villainous.  The  Thirty-seventh 
Ind.  was  distributed  along  the  road  at  steep  and  rough 
places  on  the  mountain  and  assisted  the  teams  over  it. 
The  men  had  long  ropes  which  they  would  fasten  to 
each  side  of  a  wagon  and  fifteen  or  twenty  men  would 
pull  on  each  of  these  ropes,  and  thus  enable  the  mules  to 
move  the  wagon  a  short  distance.  These  men  would 
leave  this  wagon  to  comrades  at  that  point  and  go  back 
with  their  ropes  for  another  wagon  until  all  were 
taken  over. 

General  Negley,  to  whose  division  the  Thirty-seventh 
belonged,  not  onty  supervised  this  work,  but  actually 
pulled  off  his  coat  and  pulled  at  the  ropes.  While  going 
up  this  mountain  a  sutler  had  stalled  and  worked  his 
wagon  out  to  the  side  of  the  road,  and  concluded  to 
lighten  his  load  by  selling  his  goods  at  prices  much 
higher  than  the  mountain.  Some  of  the  boys  were  not 
pleased  with  his  prices,  and  getting  into  a  quarrel  with 
him,  tumbled  his  wagon,  goods  and  everything  down  the 
mountain  side.  We  slept  on  the  mountain  top  that 
night,  and  the  next  day,  the  5th,  marched  down  its 
eastern  slope  into  Lookout  valley,  and  camped  near 
Trenton  Gap.  The  next  day  was  the  Sabbath,  and  we 
rested  all  day — blessed  day  of  rest. 

On  the  morning  of  the  7th  we  moved  up  the  valley 
some  distance.  We  were  nearing  the.  crossing  of  the 
fourth  great  barrier  that  we  had  to  overcome  during 
that  campaign — the  Cumberland  mountain,  the  Ten 
nessee  river,  Sand  mountain,  and  last  and  greatest  of  all, 


INDIANA    VnM'NTKKR    INFANTKY.  49 

Lookout  mountain.  The  8th  and  9th  wore  spent  in 
crossing-  the  mountain,  working  part  of  the  9th  digging 
great  rocks  out  of  the  road  and  rolling  them  down  the 
mountain  side.  Here,  too,  the  men  had  to  help  haul  the 
army  wagons  and  artillery  up  the  mountain.  Finally 
the  division  (Xegley's),  got  down  the  mountain,  into 
McKlmore's  Cave.  The  Thirty -seventh  was  deployed 
as  skirmishers  on  the  10th.  and  moved  forward  quite 
rapidly  about  a  mile  when  it  struck  the  enemy,  and 
skirmishing  began  immediately. 

The  Thirty-seventh  was  supported  by  its  Brigade 
and  drove  the  enemy  south  on  the  Lafayette  road  to 
ward  Dug  Gap.  Perhaps  the  Thirty-seventh,  and  the 
division  to  which  it  belonged,  never  was  in  a  more  dan 
gerous  condition  than  just  at  that  time.  Nothing  but 
the  blundering  of  Gen.  Bragg  saved  it  from  capture,  as 
the  whole  rebel  army  of  45,000  men,  who  had  fallen 
back  from  Chattanooga  to  that  point,  was  in  front  of  us 
An  anecdote,  told  by  a  Confederate  soldier  to  the  writer 
of  this  since  the  war,  shows  that  the  Confederate  soldiers 
who  had  "fallen  back"  with  Bragg  from  Murfreesboro 
to  Chattanooga,  had  become  disgusted  with  him.  After 
Bragg  had  fallen  back  to  Chattanooga  he  joined  the 
Episcopal  Church. 

The  next  day  after  he  had  joined,  a  Confederate 
soldier  said  to  another  one:  "Well,  old  Bragg  joined 
church  yesterday.''  "The  old  fool,"  said  the  other. 
"Oh,"  said  the  rirst  speaker,  "he  wants  to  get  to  heaven 
just  as  bad  as  you  do."  "Of  course  he  does,"  said  the 
other,  "but  if  he  should  get  to  heaven  he  would  fall 
back  the  next  day." 

Bragg  intended  to  capture  that  division  of  the  army 
and  then  destroy  or  capture  Crittenden  and  McCook  in 
detail,  but  he  was  a  little  too  slow.  We  had  driven  the 
enemy  some  miles  when  they  made  a  stand.  From 


f)0 


HISTORY   OF   THE  Til  I  HTY-SK  V  KNTII 


some  prisoners  captured  that  day  it  was  learned  that  we 
were  in  front  of  the  entire  Confederate  army  com 
manded  by  Gen.  Bragg.  Our  whole  force  at  that  time 
consisted  of  three  Brigades  of  Infantry,  three  Batteries 
and  one  Regiment  of  Cavalry,  all  commanded  by  Gen. 
Xegley.  That  night  the  boys  ate  roasting-ears  gathered 
from  corn-stalks  from  twelve  to  fifteen  feet  high.  The 
mountains  kept  the  air  cool  and  made  vegetation  late. 
We  held  our  ground  the  10th  all  day,  skirmishing 
sharply  at  times.  Those  who  were  not  on  picket  slept 

well  that  night.  Leroy  .Rob 
erts,  of  Co.  F,  was  on  picket 
that  night  and  says:  "The 
words  of  caution  I  received 
from  the  officer  of  the  guard 
that  night  convinced  me,  boy 
that  I  was,  that  some  one,  high 
in  authority,  knew  more  than 
he  cared  to  tell." 

History  informs  us  that  at 
9  :30  that  night  Negley  sent  a 
message  to  Gen.  Baird,  who 
was  following  us  with  the  first 
division,  that  he  had  encount 
ered  a  large  force  of  the  enemy,  and  asked  him  if  he 
would  be  up  in  time  to  assist  him  on  the  llth.  This 
dispatch  was  sent  from  the  house  of  the  widow  Davis, 
near  Chickamauga  creek.  We  were  in  close  quarters, 
indeed,  and  had  Bragg's  orders  been  carried  out,  the 
division  would  have  been  captured  on  the  morning  of 
the  llth;  but  their  delays  was  their  misfortune  and  our 
salvation.  On  the  morning  of  the  llth  a  strong  force  in 
our  front  developed  our  position,  and  when  they  had 
done  that  they  sent  a  strong  force  around  our  left  flank. 
Their  line  of  march  could  easily  be  seen  by  the  great 


Leroy  Roberts. 
Dillsborough.  Ind. 


INDIANA    VOLUNTEER    INFANTRY.  51 

cloud  of  dust  they  raised.  Baird  had  arrived,  and  with 
his  Brigade  it  was  necessary  for  the  enemy  to  approach 
us  cautiously. 

While  falling-  back,  and  still  near  Duo-  Gap.  a 
woman  carrying-  a  little  baby  came  out  of  a  little  white 
frame  house  over  which  bullets  and  shells  were 
flying  pretty  thick.  She  spoke  to  no  one,  but  started  to 
the  rear.  Just  as  some  one  remarked  "She  runs  like  a 
deer,"  a  deer  jumped  up  and  started  after  her;  but 
whether  it  overtook  her  or  not  is  not  certain,  for  both 
disappeared  in  a  thicket.  After  the  Regiment  had  got 
back  to  a  place  of  some  safety,  Co.  B,  of  the  Thirty  - 
seventh,  was  sent  back  to  Bridgeport  for  supplies,  and 
returning  Sunday,  the  20th  of  September,  struck  Mc- 
Cook's  corps  rushing  back  demoralized,  and  was  carried 
with  it  back  to  Chattanooga,  and  thus  was  kept,  greatly 
to  its  regret,  from  participating  in  the  great  battle  of 
Chickamauga. 

Negley  showed  both  courage  and  good  generalship 
that  day.  While  the  rebels  were  really  in  our  rear  and 
front,  he  managed  to  keep  a  Brigade  in  front  of  them  all 
the  time.  That  was  one  of  the  most  tiresome  days  the 
Thirty-seventh  ever  experienced.  From  early  morning 
till  after  dark  it  was  falling  back,  and  taking  positions, 
and  marching  to  the  flanks,  and  skirmishing  with  over 
whelming  numbers.  And  oh,  how  hot  it  was! 

The  men  were  nearly  worn  out  moving  from  place 
to  place,  though  Negley's  presence  and  voice  encouraged 
them  greatly.  About  3  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  Hind- 
man's  gun  on  our  left  and  rear,  which  was  the  signal  for 
Bragg  to  attack  us  in  front,  was  heard.  The  signal  came 
too  late  to  be  of  any  advantage  to  the  enemy.  Just 
about  this  time,  as  the  Thirty -seventh  was  standing  in 
line  of  battle,  Gen.  George  H.  Thomas  rode  slowly  up 
looking  as  peaceful  and  calm  as  the  summer  sky.  in- 


.V2  HISTORY   OF  THE  til  HIT  Y-SEV  KXTI I 

spiring  all  with  new  hope  and  courage,  and  causing 
many  to  say :  ''There's  Pap  Thomas,  boys,  it's  all  right 
now."  Great  and  good  and  able  Gen.  George  II. 
Thomas;  without  a  peer  in  that  army.  We  continued 
falling  back  slowly  till  we  came  to  the  mountain  which 
protected  our  flanks,  and  there  we  rested  and  held  the 
enemy  at  bay  all  night  and  next  day.  The  Dug  Gap 
campaign  was  a  tiresome  and  dangerous  one.  The 
Thirty -seventh  had  several  men  wounded  on  the  10th 
and  llth,  but  none  killed. 

On  the  llth,  as  we  were  falling  back  with  the  Con 
federate  army  as  close  after  us  as  it  was  safe  for  ihem  to 
come,  we  passed  a  small,  but  neat  little  frame  house.  One 
of  our  Batteries  was  tiring  at  the  advancing  enemy,  and 
one  of  their  guns  was  tiring  at  us.  A  shell  from  the 
enemy's  gun  struck  the  corner  of  the  house,  and,  ex 
ploding,  tore  out  the  end  of  the  building.  A  tall,  and 
rather  a  nice  looking  lady  came  out  with  a  large  bible 
under  her  arm,  and  said  to  the  boys  in  blue :  "I  hope, 
gentlemen,  you  will  be  highly  entertained  to-day,  and  I 
am  glad  to  say  the  prospect  for  it  is  exceedingly  bright,'' 
and  she  hurried  on  toward  a  place  of  safety. 

On  the  10th,  Thomas  McGuinness,  of  Co.  K,  was 
slightly  wounded,  and  on  the  llth,  as  we  were  hurrying 
through  a  corn-Held  to  our  left,  a  corn-stalk  caught  the 
hammer  of  some  one's  gun,  causing  it  to  explode,  wound 
ing  Sergeant  Jasper  Plow,  of  Co.  K,  on  the  wrist  so  as 
to  permanently  disable  him.  He  was  a  good  and  brave 
man.  On  the  llth  we  crossed  the  head  waters  of  Chick- 
amauga  creek — a  sluggish,  nasty  stream.  It  did  not 
enter  into  our  minds  that  soon  we,  with  other  Regi 
ments,  would  make  that  little,  insignificant  stream 
famous  the  world  over,  and  that  on  its  banks  thousands 
of  the  soldiers  of  the  Union  would  pour  out  their  blood 
for  their  government.  On  the  12th  the  other  three 


INDIANA  VOLVNTKKK  INFANTRY.  )8 

divisions  of  our  corps  came  rapidly  down  the  mountain 
and  joined  us,  and  then  we  felt  that  with  that  position 
we  could  hold  our  own  against  the  combined  force  of 
the  enemy. 

The  Thirty-seventh  remained  near  there  till  the 
18th,  when  we  moved  by  the  left  flank  some  miles 
north.  After  dark  we  took  up  our  line  of  march  again 
toward  the  north,  and  to  what  proved  to  be  the  bloody 
field  of  Chickamauga. 

How  far  we  marched  that  night  I  do  not  know,  but 
we  were  going  all  night,  sometimes  I  think  in  one 
direction  and  sometimes  in  another.  The  army  seemed 
badly  mixed,  but  I  suppose  it  was  all  right.  Fences 
were  burning  everywhere  we  went.  Troops  were  pass 
ing  all  night  and  taking  position  on  the  left.  Negley's 
division  relieved  Vandever  the  latter  part  of  that  night. 
Our  Brigade  laid  down  near  the  morning  of  the  19th  to 
sleep,  and  was  awakened  by  cannonading  on  our  left. 
We  watched  the  shells  bursting  and  heard  the  cannons 
roar.  Thomas  was  at  Kelley's  house,  near  the  Lafayette 
road,  confronting  Bragg's  army  near  Chickamauga 

About  noon  the  battle  raged  fiercely.  McCook's 
division,  tired  and  covered  with  dust,  passed  us  going 
in  the  direction  of  the  lighting.  We  lay  there  listening 
to  the  roar  of  artillery  and  the  sharp  rattle  of  musketry. 
Sometime  in  the  afternoon  Saturday,  Xegley  was  ordered 
to  move  in  the  direction  of  the  battle.  He  started 
promptly,  and  after  going  some  distance  we  came  to 
Crawfish  springs.  There  we  were  permitted  to  iill  our 
canteens,  which  we  gladly  did,  as  we  knew  the  im 
portance  of  water  in  a  battle.  What  a  beautiful  spring 
of  water  that  was,  and  is!  Think  of  going  from  that 
pure  life-giving  fountain  of  clear,  cold  water,  springing 
up  in  great  abundance,  to  a  great  and  dreadful  battle 
where  smoke  and  dust  and  toil  and  wounds  and  death 


51  HISTORY   OF  THE  THIKT  Y-SKVKNTH 

hold  high  carnival.  That  is  war.  Negley  seemed 
anxious  to  get  into  the  fray — seemed  vexed  at  the  delib 
eration  of  some  of  the  men  when  drinking  the  water  or 
lilling  their  canteens.  But  that  was  the  last  quiet  or 
water  that  we  got  till  Sabbath  night  after  the  battle. 
Xear  the  Lee  house  was  Rosecran's  headquarters  before 
moving  to  the  widow  Glenn's.  We  moved  forward 
rapidly  and  soon  began  to  meet  wounded  men  and 
stragglers — many  were  badly  wounded  and  many  were 
only  scared — stampeded.  This  was  an  unusual  sight  to 

the  Thirty-seventh,  but  some 
thing  that  may  always  be  seen 
at  the  rear  of  a  great  army  en 
gaged  in  battle. 

As  we  marched  through  an 
open  field  our  army  lay  at  the 
edge  of  a  woods  some  sixty 
rods  in  front  of  us.  We  saw 
our  line  for  a  distance  of  nearly 
a  quarter  of  a  mile  in  length 
and  it  was  firing  as  fast  as  it 
could.  The  wounded  were 
sergeant  Lafayette  Ford.  GO.  E.  coming  back  in  great  numbers, 

Detroit.  Mich.  an(J     W.    (J.     PattOll,    of    Co.     K, 

asked  one  of  them  how  they  were  making  it  in  front. 
He  said:  "Well,  it's  about  nip  and  tuck  and  d — d  if  I 
ain't  afraid  tuck  has  the  best  of  it."  Others  though 
badly  wounded,  said  they  were  getting  along  all  right. 

We  went  on,  passed  the  widow  Glenn's  house — 
Rosecran's  headquarters.  We  were  on  the  dry  valley 
road,  and  still  west  some  distance  of  the  lighting  line. 
We  went,  I  am  told,  to  the  west  and  north  of  Brother- 
tons,  and  formed  our  line  of  battle  and  the  men  laid 
down.  While  there  an  officer  rode  up  and  asked  what 
Regiment  that  was.  Xo  one  answering  promptly,  Rufus 


INDIANA   VOLUNTEER  INFANTHV.  55 

Hudelson,  of  Co.  K,  jumped  up,  and  in  the  most  cheer 
ful  tone  of  voice,  said:  "The  Thirty -seventh  Indiana, 
and  we  only  have  one  more  year  to  serve."  Nothing 
could  have  been  more  ridiculous  than  to  be  delighted 
that  we  only  had  one  year  of  that  kind  of  lighting'  to  do. 
About  dark  severe  lighting  began  on  our  left,  and  we 
were  ordered  forward  into  a  woods.  It  was  very  dark 
and  the  ground  had  been  fought  over,  and  many  guns 
were  lying  on  the  ground.  We  could  see  the  fire  leap 
ing  from  the  guns  of  our  soldiers  on  our  left,  and  hear 
the  bullets  of  the  enemy  whiz 
zing  past,  but  there  was  no 
fighting  at  our  front,  and  we 
had  only  one  man  wounded. 
Thus  it  is  in  war.  Sometimes 
we  plunge  into  danger  when 
we  little  expect  it,  and  some 
times  when  we  think  we  are 
marching  into  the  jaws  of 
death,  the  battle  lifts  and  no  ^f 
one  is  hurt.  At  times  when 
the  battle  is  raging  at  its 
fiercest,  all  in  a  few  minutes 
will  become  as  quiet  as  anv  David  H.  Hair.  Co.  F. 

Elrod.  Ind. 
Sabbath    morning.      We    made 

temporary  fortifications  there  of  logs  and  rails,  and  laid 
down  to  rest.  The  night  was  dark  and  cold,  and  the 
groans  of  the  wounded  in  our  front  added  to  the  gloomy 
surroundings.  Thirty-seventh  men  carried  back  many 
poor,  wounded  rebels  that  night  and  cared  for  them  as 
best  they  could. 

Before  all  the  wounded  were  cared  for,  the  queen  of 
the  night  arose  in  all  her  splender  and  lighted  up  the 
blood-stained  field  with  her  cold  rays.  Col.  Ward  at  the 
time  quoted  the  words :  "  'Twas  a  calm,  still  night,  and 


5ft  MISTOHY    OF  THK  TI 1  IRT\  -SKA  KVT1I 

the  cold,  round  moon  lookod  dow.n  on  the  dead  and 
dying."  The  night  was  cold,  and  the  men  suffered 
greatly,  their  clothing  being  wet  with  perspiration. 
They  were  not  permitted  to  take  their  blankets  from 
their  knapsacks,  and  were  compelled  to  lie  on  the  cold 
ground  shivering  till  the  sun  arose  and  warmed  them 
with  its  heat.  No  heavier  frost  was  ever  seen  than  lay 
that  morning  on  the  battle  field  of  Chickamauga.  The 
moaning  of  the  wounded  had  ceased  the  morning  of  the 
20th  as  the  sun  arose  above  the  hills,  and  many  soldiers 
slept  that  sleep  that  knows  no  waking. 

We  gathered  logs  and  rails  out  of  which  we  made 
temporary  breast-works,  and  waited  for  the  battle  to 
begin.  A  stiller  Sabbath  morning  than  that  20th  morn 
ing  of  September  was  never  known.  The  silence  was 
oppressive.  The  firing  of  a  few  guns  of  either  army 
would  have  been  a  relief.  The  sun  climbed  high  up  the 
steep  of  the  heavens.  About  9  o'clock  we  could  hear 
the  artillery  wagons  of  the  enemy  moving  toward  our 
left.  We  all  knew  what  that  meant.  About  that  time 
General  Garfield  and  staff  rode  along  the  line  a  short 
distance  in  the  rear.  Soon  alter  a  rifle  was  heard,  then 
another,  and  in  a  moment  many  others,  and  now  many 
cannons  on  both  sides  are  making  the  very  earth  shake 
with  their  awful  roar.  The  battle  was  on  in  earnest. 
Rebel  skirmishers  try  our  line,  but  are  easily  repulsed. 
This  was  about  9:30  o'clock  in  the  morning. 

About  10  o'clock  we,  Sirwell's  Brigade,  was  ordered 
to  the  support  of  Thomas,  Beatty  and  Stanley's  Brigades 
having  preceded  us.  We  went  about  a  half  mile  when 
an  order  came  to  change  front  and  retake  our  old 
position,  which  we  did.  From  this  point  Col.  Ward  sent 
his  horse  back,  which  was  captured  by  some  Confederate 
Cavalry.  We  were  again  ordered  to  the  left  and  rear 
to  a  hillside  sloping  towards  the  woods  we  left.  We  had 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  McKtE,  Co.  K. 


INDIANA   VOLUNTEER   IXKAXTKY.  57 

hardly  formed  our  line  when  the  Confederate  line  of 
battle  advanced,  but  was  soon  halted  by  our  artillery 
opening  on  them.  The  enemy  then  trained  their 
artillery  on  us,  but  did  no  serious  injury.  Cannon  balls 
tore  through  the  timber  and  shells  burst  over  our  heads, 
but  struck  no  one  in  our  Regiment.  Splinters  knocked 
from  trees  by  cannon  balls  struck  Col.  Ward  and  others, 
but  hurt  no  one  seriously. 

At  this  point  we  discovered  that  the  Thirty-seventh 
Indiana  and  the  Twenty-first  Ohio  had  become  separated 
from  the  other  Regiments  of  the  Brigade.  After  staying 
a  short  time  at  this  point  we  were  ordered  to  the  left  by 
Gen.  Negley.  In  obeying  this  order  we  crossed  quite  a 
little  hill,  and  formed  in  an  open  woods.  Shells  were 
screaming  through  the  tree  tops,  bursting  over  our  heads 
and  making  a  fearful  noise,  but  doing  but  little  harm. 
After  standing  there  a  short  time  we  were  ordered  for 
ward.  The  roar  of  battle  w^as  deafening,  and  we  were 
sure  we  were  going  into  it.  We  took  position  near  a 
straw  stack.  Union  troops  on  our  right  and  a  little  in 
advance  were  in  a  corn-field,  and  the  dust  raised  in  the 
field  by  rebel  bullets  striking  the  ground  among  them, 
reminded  one  of  the  dust  raised  sometimes  by  a  dashing 
summer's  rain.  It  did  not  seem  possible  that  we  would 
get  out  of  that  place  without  fighting.  The  battle  raged 
furiously  on  our  right,  while  comparative  quiet  reigned 
in  our  front.  A  Union  battery  at  our  rear  and  on  a  hill, 
kept  up  a  continual  firing  over  us,  and  a  rebel  gun  in 
our  front  was  shooting  over  our  heads  at  our  battery  it 
seemed.  We  remained  at  this  place  quite  a  while,  but 
did  no  fighting  and  suffered  no  loss.  A  cannon  ball 
from  the  rebel  gun  at  our  front  struck  a  pine  tree  near 
the  top  some  forty  rods  in  front  of  us,  tore  through  it, 
struck  the  ground  in  front  of  us,  bounded  against  our 
breast-works  of  rails,  and  some  of  us  think  it  rolled 


58  HISTORY   OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

back,  while  others  think  it  went  on  to  the  rear. 
From  that  position  we  were  moved  a  short  distance 
to  the  right  and  rear  of  the  straw  stack,  and  up  a  little 
hill  near  a  house  where  a  Union  battery  was  firing'  very 
rapidly.  This  place  seemed  like  a  veritable  hell;  the 
blue  smoke  from  the  cannons'  mouths  made  it  difficult 
to  see,  and  the  roar  was  simply  deafening.  While  at 
this  place  an  officer  rode  up  on  a  liery  steed  flecked  with 
foam  and  inquired  "What  Regiment  is  this?"  On  being- 
told,  he  ordered  us  to  charge  over  the  point  of  the  hill 
and  capture  a  rebel  Brigade. 

Rufus  Hudelson  said :  "I  don't  want  any  rebel 
Brigade."  It  was  at  that  time,  and  is  yet  believed  by 
many  of  us,  including  the  writer  of  this,  that  that  man 
was  a  rebel  officer.  Such  things  did  occur  on  that  day. 
To  the  right  of  us  about  400  yards  on  that  same  hill  the 
Ninth  Indiana  Regiment  was  fighting.  The  day  was 
far  gone  and  the  smoke  of  battle  hung  on  the  moist  air 
of  evening.  A  rebel  officer  rode  up  to  the  Ninth  and 
said:  "Surrender,  men;  you  are  surrounded,  and  to  fight 
longer  is  murder."  Two  men  of  the  Ninth  Indiana 
turned  around  and  said:  "Who  the  h — 1  are  you?"  and 
shot  him  off  his  horse.  As  he  fell  he  said :  "Oh,  boys, 
why  did  you  kill  me?"  Judge  McConnel,  of  Logans- 
port,  was  there  and  vouches  for  the  truth  of  this.  Both 
sides  fought  desperately  there,  for  on  the  result  of  that 
battle  the  fate  of  the  government  seemed  to  hang. 

Our  Colonel  had  about  finished  the  order  to  make 
the  charge  when  an  aid  of  Gen.  Negley  rode  up  and  or 
dered  us  to  move  off  by  the  right  flank  toward  the  rear. 
That  we  were  at  this  time  at  the  northern  point  of 
Snodgrass  hill  there  is  no  doubt.  I  have  been  there 
three  times  since  the  battle,  and  think  I  cannot  be  mis 
taken  about  it.  The  hill  and  surroundings  look  quite 
natural.  Comrade  Leroy  Roberts,  of  Co.  F,  visited  that 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INFANTRY.  59 

battle  Held  while  old  man  Snodgrass  still  lived  in  that 
house,  and  he  told  Mr.  Roberts  that  the  straw  stack  at 
which  we  formed  our  line  as  before  stated,  was  un 
doubtedly  his.  The  Twenty -first  Ohio  of  our  Brigade, 
the  only  Regiment  of  our  division  excepting  the  Thirty- 
seventh  that  was  left  on  the  field,  was  in  the  hottest  of 
the  fight  on  that  hill. 

We  marched  back  and  down  a  sloping  hill  through 
an  open  woods.  In  this  open  woods  were  artillery 
teams  hitched  to  their  wagons  without  riders,  running 
wildly  through  the  woods  hauling  the  cannons.  Some 
of  the  horses  were  shot  and  unable  to  travel  and  were 
dragged  along.  Men  and  officers  by  the  scores  were 
running  wildly  to  the  rear,  seemingly  having  lost  all 
pride  and  shame.  Perhaps  such  a  sight  may  always  be 
seen  in  the  rear  of  a  great  army  engaged  in  battle,  but 
it  was  a  curious,  uncommon  and  painful  sight  to  the 
men  of  the  Thirty-seventh  Indiana  Regiment.  Col. 
Ward  and  the  other  officers  of  the  Regiment  acted 
wisely  and  fearlessly,  and  if.  there  was  any  indication  of 
fright  among  the  men  of  the  Thirty-seventh,!  did  not  see  it. 

Our  Regiment  seemed  so  cool  and  orderly  that  I  am 
told  quite  a  number  of  men  who  were  running  away 
fell  in  with  it,  and  for  a  time  became  a  part  of  us.  Our 
first  stop  was  in  an  open  field  a  half  mile  or  more  to  the 
rear  and  north  of  Snodgrass  hill,  and  on  the  road  lead 
ing  through  McFarland's  Gap,  which  is  south  of  Ross- 
ville  in  the  same  Missionary  ridge.  We  were  ordered 
to  the  rear  twice  more  that  evening ;  the  last  time  took 
us  to  or  near  Rossville,  where  we  found  Jeff.  C.  Davis 
rallying  his  troops.  We  were  required  to  join  him  in 
that  work,  and  gathered  up  quite  a  force,  a  number  of 
them  being  without  arms.  The  battle  still  raged  with 
unabated  fury  at  the  front,  and  continued  to  do  so 
till  after  dark. 


HO  HISTORY   OK  TILE  THIRTY-SKY .KNTH 

We  remained  on  the  field  near  Rossville,  and  the 
tiring  at  the  front  ceasing,  laid  down  to  rest  and  sleep. 
But  thoughts  of  the  dead  and  dying  on  that  bloody 
battle  ground  greatly  disturbed  the  rest  of  many  who 
badly  needed  sleep.  More  than  thirty  thousand  men 
had  been  killed  or  wounded  in  those  two  days,  most 
of  whom  still  remained  where  they  fell.  On  the  morn 
ing  of  the  21st,  Gen.  Negley  rode  up  to  us  and  inquired 
how  the  Indiana  boys  were  at  that  time.  The  Thirty- 
seventh,  after  eating  breakfast,  was  marched  south  some 

distance  and  placed  on 
picket  on  Missionary 
ridge.  The  pickets  were 
placed  in  little  groups  of 
three  or  four  men  some 
two  or  three  rods  apart. 
The  rebels  were  anxious 
to  know  what  we  were 
doing  and  how  strong 
we  were,  and  about  3 
o'clock  p.  m.  sent  out  a 
scouting  party  to  gain  the 
desired  information.  They 
came  a  little  too  close, 

wmis  vidito.  and  Willis  Vidito,  of  Co. 

Alsea.  Oregon.  p    kiUed  Qne  of  thenlj  Rnd 

their  curiosity  was  satisfied.  We  remained  on  that 
ridge  all  night — a  long,  cold,  cheerless  night,  and  at 
early  dawn  the  22d  of  September,  we  quietly  came 
down  the  hill  and  marched  into  Chattanooga,  the  rebels 
following  us  so  closely  that  their  advance  was  in  sight 
of  us  as  we  went  into  town,  and  the  Chicka manga  cam 
paign  was  over,  and  Chattanooga,  the  objective  point, 
was  ours.  Ours  was  the  last  Regiment  to  go  into  Chat 
tanooga.  The  rebel  Cavalry  followed  us  pretty  closely, 


INDIANA  VOLVXTKKR  INFANTRY.  (31 

but  showed  no  desire  to  attack  us.  Our  army  had  the 
city— theirs  the  dead  and  wounded.  Yet  no  campaign 
or  battle  of  the  war  did  greater  honor  to  the  fighting 
quality  of  the  Northern  soldiers,  or  accomplished  more 
for  the  crushing  of  the  rebellion  than  the  battle  of 
Chickamauga.  When  we  arrived  near  Chattanooga  the 
morning  of  the  22d,  we  faced  to  the  front,  went  into 
camp,  ate  breakfast  and  prepared  for  the  siege  of 
Chattanooga. 


CHAPTER  TEN 

The  Siege  of  Chattanooga— Starving— Eating  Corn,  Cow 
Tails  and  Acorns. 

Right  good   works   had   already  been    erected  when 
^g^^^  we  got   into   the   town.       Men 

f          ^fc  were     busy    with     picks    and 

spades.  Our  pickets  were  out 
about  a  half  mile  south  of  our 
line.  The  enemy  came  on  in 
force,  attacked  our  pickets  and 
seemed  determined  to  bring  on 
an  engagement.  Our  Batteries 
opened  on  them  that  afternoon 
and  a  strong  force  started  to 
re-inforce  our  pickets,  and  the 
attack  was  abandoned.  All 
j.  w.  Garrison.  Co.  H.  our  energies  were  now  put 
Greensburg.  ind.  forth  to  strengthen  the  fortifi 

cations  so  that  we  could  withstand  any  attack  the 
enemy  might  make.  A  long  trial  of  labor,  exposure, 
danger  and  hunger  was  before  the  army,  but  it  pre 
ferred  almost  anything  to  giving  up  the  town.  They 
had  fought  for  it  and  got  it,  and  would  not  surrender  it 
now.  Fortifying  was  seriously  interrupted  by  the 
enemy's  artillery.  They  kept  up  an  almost  incessant 
cannonading  for  several  days,  doing  but  little  harm. 
One  of  the  shells  did  not  explode,  and  some  colored 
men  used  one  of  them  for  an  andiron.  Soon  there  was 
a  fearful  explosion  and  one  dead  colored  man  and  two 


INDIANA  YOLTNTKEK  INFANTRY.  (53 

or  three  seriously  wounded.  We  worked  the  night  of 
the  22d  on  Fort  Negley.  He  told  us  if  we  would  work 
well  that  night  on  the  fort  we  need  not  fear  anything 
the  enemy  could  do. 

We  surely  worked-  well  all  that  night,  and  the  guns 
of  the  Nineteenth  Indiana  Battery  were  put  in  position 
in  that  fort  the  morning  of  the  23d.  The  enemy  did 
not  seem  anxious  to  try  us  again,  and  we  continued 
fortifying.  On  the  afternoon  of  the  23d  we  hoisted  a 
flag  on  the  fort  and  Negley  said  :  "Now,  let  them  come/' 
but  they  did  not.  They  were 
very  provoking,  never  coming 
when  we  wanted  them  to,  and 
generally  coming  when  they 
were  neither  invited  nor 
wanted.  That  may  be  some 
excuse  for  our  using  them  so 
badly  when  they  did  come. 
Yet  we  would  have  treated 
them  worse  if  they  had  come 
when  we  wanted  them. 

Every   available  man   was 

at  this  time  put  to  work  O11    the    Marion  Davis.  Sergeant  Co.  B. 

..,,      ,.  Liberty.  Ind. 

fortifications,  and  Chattanooga 

was  fast  becoming  a  well  fortified  city.  The  enemy 
continued  to  shell  us,  and  make  it  very  unpleasant  and 
somewhat  dangerous  to  work  where  shot  or  shells 
could  reach  us.  The  large  gun  they  had  on  the  top  of 
Lookout  mountain  made  a  fearful  noise,  but  did  little 
harm,  as  they  could  not  depress  it  enough  to  hit  us  by 
shooting  directly  at  us  without  spoiling  the  carriage  of 
the  gun.  Often  they  would  shoot  up  so  the  ball  would 
fall  into  our  camp.  This  did  no  other  harm  to  the 
Thirty-seventh,  I  believe,  than  to  let  a  cannon  ball  drop 
through  a  dog  tent  in  which  Doc.  Baker,  of  Co.  G,  was 


(54  HISTORY  OF  TTlti  TTtLKTY-SEVKN'TH 

sitting  reading.  It  tore  a  big  hole  in  the  tent,  but  did 
not  touch  him.  One  evening  after  we  were  pretty  well 
fortified,  the  whole  army,  by  common  consent,  I  think, 
began  cheering,  and  kept  it  up  for  half  an  hour. 

The  Thirty-seventh  slept  behind  Fort  Negley  with 
out  any  protection  from  the  shot  and  shells  of  the 
enemy,  or  from  the  sun  or  rain  or  dew.  Quite  fre 
quently  at  night  when  we  were  sleeping  soundly,  we 
would  be  aroused  and  hastily  marched  into  Fort 
Xegley.  This  was  done  that  we  might  learn  our  position 
if  we  should  be  attacked. 

It  was  at  Fort  Negley,  and  the  3d  of  October,  that 
the  enemy  shelled  us  so  vigorously  all  one  afternoon 
We  had  no  protection,  and  the  shot  and  shell  came 
thick  and  fast.  Their  Batteries  were  in  plain  view, 
and  only  those  who  have  experienced  it  can  tell  how 
slow  time  seems  to  fly  while  he  is  the  target  for  an 
enemy's  Battery.  We  expected  a  repetition  of  this 
shelling  the  next  day,  but  did  not  get  it.  From  this 
position  we  were  soon  removed  to  one  at  the  foot  of 
Cameron  hill.  They  continued  to  shell  us  from  Look 
out  mountain,  but  could  not  depress  their  gun  enough 
to  harm  us  much. 

But  worse  than  shot  and  shell  were  the  short  rations 
on  which  we  were  placed.  The  hard  work  and  ex 
posure  to  which  we  were  subjected  made  full  rations  a 
necessity.  Instead  of  this  we  were  suddenly  put  on  half 
rations,  and  much  less  than  that.  Thousands  of  men 
there  for  the  rirst  time  felt  the  gnawing  of  hunger 
without  knowing  when  or  how  it  would  be  satisiied. 
Men  would  take  the  corn  from  the  horses  and  mules, 
hundreds  of  which  were  starved  to  death.  A  dollar 
would  willingly  have  been  given  for  a  five-cent  loaf  of 
bread.  Where  beeves  were  slaughtered,  men  would  go 
•out  and  cut  the  tails  from  the  hide  and  bring  them  in 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INKANTKY.  65 

and  cook  them.  The  weather  was  getting  cold,  and 
every  tree  inside  of  our  lines  was  cut  down  for  fuel. 
When  all  these  were  consumed,  the  stumps  and  roots 
of  the  trees  were  dug'  up  and  used  for  fuel. 

This  was  a  time  of  severe  trial  and  suffering.  Many 
became  weak  and  emaciated,  yet  not  one  word  was 
uttered  about  evacuating'  the  city.  "Hold  it  till  clothing 
and  provision  comes"  was  the  sentiment  of  all.  I  be 
lieve  no  army  ever  showed  more  patience,  courage  or 
patriotism  than  did  that  grand  old  army  of  the  Cum 
berland.  But  relief  came  at  last. 

Hooker  arrived  with  the  Eleventh  and  Twelfth 
corps  at  Bridgeport  and  drove  the  enemy  back  to 
within  a  fewr  miles  of  Chattanooga;  and  then  a  Brigade 
under  Gen.  Turchin  was  loaded  in  small  boats  at  Chat 
tanooga,  and  after  dark  they  silently  floated  down  the 
Tennessee  river  to  a  position  held  by  the  Confederates, 
from  which  they  controlled  it.  It  had  rained  the  night 
before,  and  the  rebels"  seeing-  the  little  boats  floating 
down,  said:  "See  how  the  river  is  rising  and  floating- 
down  logs."  Turchin's  men  landed  and  began  fighting 
at  once.  The  battle  raged  furiously  from  about  11 
o'clock  to  1,  when  the  enemy  gave  up  the  position,  leav 
ing  the  field  to  Turchin.  This  gave  us  control  of  the 
river  to  within  a  mile  of  the  city,  and  provision  and 
ammunition  were  easily  hauled  from  there. 

Col.  Hull  returned  some  time  in  November  and 
took  command  of  the  Regiment,  and  Col.  Ward  was 
detailed  as  a  member  of  a  court  martial,  which  held  its 
sessions  in  Chattanooga.  On  the  23d  of  November  the 
members  of  the  court  martial  were  returned  to  their 
commands,  and  the  Thirty-seventh  moved  near  Fort 
Wood.  We  marched  over  the  knoll  through  the  camp 
of  the  Ninth  Ohio,  while  the  enemy's  guns  on  Mis 
sionary  ridge  indicated  trouble  ahead.  We  slept  that 


OO  TTISTOKY  OF  THE  THIKTY-SE VENTH 

night  in  the  rear  of  the  trenches  at  the  right  of  Fort 
Wood,  The  24th  was  the  battle  of  Lookout  mountain, 
which  we  saw  plainly  from  our  position,  and  if  a 
prettier  sight  was  ever  seen,  the  Thirty-seventh  did  not 
see  it.  Many  able  and  gifted  writers  have  attempted  to 
describe  it,  but  all  failed.  Consequently,  I  shall  not  try 
it.  But  the  recollection  of  it  makes  us  all  glad  that  we 
were  soldiers  of  the  Union. 

The  next  day,  the  25th,  was  the  battle  of  Missionary 
ridge.  About  2  o'clock  the  army  commenced  moving 
as  if  on  review.  Confederate  officers  sitting  on  their 
horsee  at  Bragg's  headquarters  on  Missionary  ridge  were 
plainly  seen,  watching  the  movements  of  our  army.  It 
marched  directly  toward  Orchard  Knob,  a  high  point 
held  and  fortified  by  the  Confederates,  about  half  way 
between  the  city  and  the  ridge.  When  the  leading 
division  had  come  to  within  a  few  hundred  yards  of  the 
knobs,  the  order  was  given  to  double  quick,  and  the 
artillery  to  open  fire. 

When  the  command  "Charge"  was  given,  instantly 
the  brave  fellows  Avent  cheering  as  they  went  and 
never  halted  till  they  had  driven  the  enemy  from  their 
fortifications.  Some  of  the  Thirty-seventh  men  helped 
to  carry  wounded  men  off  the  battle  field  the  next  day. 
Comrade  Leroy  Roberts  assisted  the  next  day  in  carry 
ing  an  officer  from  the  field  who  was  hurt  so  badly 
that  he  did  not  speak. 

The  Thirty-seventh  returned  to  its  camp  on  the 
27th  of  November.  On  the  28th  we  were  ordered  to 
make  a  reconnoissance  on  Lookout  mountain,  and 
started  on  the  evening  of  the  29th,  arriving  on  the  top 
of  the  mountain  about  9  o'clock  at  night  We  went  up 
on  the  government  road.  On  the  30th  we  marched  on 
top  of  the  mountain  south,  and  slept  that  night  on  the 
mountain  top.  Men  in  camp  made  fires  out  of  pine 


INDIANA    VOLUNTEER   IXFANTKY.  67 

knots  which  were  numerous  there.  The  pickets  had  no 
fires  and  suffered  greatly  from  the  cold. 

The  next  day  we  returned  to  camp.,  Dec.  1st,  I 
think.  Our  mission  on  the  mountain  was  to  see  if  the 
enemy  was  all  off  the  mountain.  I  think  they  were. 
Before  these  battles  the  Thirty-seventh  helped  to  fortify 
Cameron  hill.  Rations  were  short  much  of  the  time 
and  often  men  went  to  bed  hungry,  and  working  on 
such  rations  was  soldiering  under  difficulties.  December 
passed  slowly  away — exceedingly  slowly  to  soldiers  who 
had  been  passing  through  such  active  service.  Camp 
duty  and  guard  duty  were  about  all  that  broke  the 
monotony  of  our  camp  life.  Col.  Ward  was  again 
detailed  on  a  court  martial,  and  continued  on  it  till  the 
last  of  December,  when  it  was  removed  to  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  the  Colonel  going  with  it. 

The  year  1863  is  gone  into  history.  And  in  the 
language  of  Comrade  Roberts,  "Its  record  of  events  will 
leave  their  imprint  beyond  the  lapse  of  time."  The 
New  Year  came  in  dull  and  cold,  as  all  will  remember 
that  New  Year's  Day  is  called  the  "Cold  New  Year's." 

The  rations  were  very  short,  and  it  was  almost 
impossible  to  obtain  fuel.  Roots  were  dug  from  the 
ground,  the  stumps  having  already  been  used.  The 
suffering  was  severe  the  1st  and  2d.  We  drew  a  small 
ration  of  flour  the  3d,  which  we  cooked  as  best  we 
could.  It  rained  the  4th,  and  for  the  sake  of  appear 
ance,  with  little  of  the  reality,  we  drew  tea — just  a  little. 
The  5th  and  6th  were  colder,  but  not  much.  Two 
steamboats  stopped  at  the  landing  the  7th,  and  then 
went  on  toward  Knoxville.  On  the  8th  there  was  a 
slight  snow  fall,  and  Capt.  Shook  was  in  command  of 
the  Regiment,  and  had  inspection. 

Our  rations  gave  out  on  the  9th,  and  we  passed  the 
day  in  good  condition  physically  and  mentally  to 


OO  HISTORY  OF  THE  f  HIRTY-SE  VEXTH 

sympathize  with  the  much-abused  army  mule  which 
still  refused  to  die.  l>ut  rations  came  on  the  10th,  and 
we  were  all  glad  again,  and  ready  to  swear  that  Uncle 
Sam  was  a  good  provider,  and  that  we  would  see  him 
out  of  his  trouble  into  which  his  bad  brother  had  gotten 
him.  We  were  still  at  Cameron  hill,  where  we  had 
often  stood  on  dress  parade  and  seen  our  battery  on 
Moccasin  point  throw  solid  shot  and  bursting  shell 
against  the  rocky  top  of  Lookout  mountain.  The  base 
of  that  mountain  furnished  us  wood  after  the  enemy 
left.  A  company  that  had  an  ax  was  well  off,  but  old 
soldiers  are  great  borrowers.  Camp  guard  and  dress 
parade  were  introduced  again  on  the  12th.  From  this 
time  to  the  17th  rations  were  scarce ;  boats  were  passing 
and  re-passing,  trains  were  coming  and  going,  but 
rations  came  in  slowly.  On  the  17th  we  received  a 
marching  order  to  go  with  four  days'  rations. 

We  left  the  18th,  with  rain  pouring  down,  going  in 
a  north-easterly  direction,  crossed  the  Chickamauga 
river,  the  Western,  Atlanta  and  East  Tennessee  R.  R. 
and  camped  within  two  miles  of  Harrison.  Camped 
near  the  same  place  the  next  evening.  A  strong  Union 
sentiment  prevailed  there.  This  was  about  twelve  miles 
from  Chattanooga,  and  near  the  Tennessee  river.  It 
snowed  on  the  19th.  On  the  21st  we  marched  in  an 
easterly  direction,  and  passed  a  house  that  had  the 
"old  flag" — red,  white  and  blue,  hung  out  and  floating 
proudly  in  the  breeze.  We  stopped  at  a  small  town  on 
the  East  Tennessee  and  Georgia  R.  R  ,  five  miles  from 
Harrison  and  fifteen  from  Chattanooga,  and  finding  no 
enemy,  we  marched  back  to  Chattanooga,  reaching 
there  at  10  o'clock  at  night.  Orders  to  move  camp 
awaited  us  on  our  arrival.  We  struck  tent  the  morning 
of  the  22d,  and  moved  to  the  right  and  front  of  Fort 
Wood,  where  we  began  housekeeping  again. 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INFANTRY.  fi(,> 

We  were  not  loth  to  leave  this  old  camp.  We  had 
left  many  camps  with  feeling's  of  sadness  and  sometimes 
apprehensions  amounting  to  almost  fear.  A  curious 
thing-  about  soldier  life  is  that  one  will  sometimes  be 
come  greatly  attached  to  some  camp  after  staying  there 
but  a  few  days.  But  that  old  camp  we  were  willing  to 
leave.  There,  from  October  till  late  in  January,  we 
had  suffered  hunger,  cold  and  all  the  privations  incident 
to  soldier  life,  and  we  were  rather  glad  to  leave.  Still, 
during  the  long  siege,  and  the  many  battles  in  the 
meanwhile,  the  loss  of  life  from  all  causes  had  been 
small.  We  were  still  on  short  rations,  but  knew  this 
trouble  could  not  last  long.  The  next  day,  the  23d 
of  January,  we  got  our  lumber  and  plunder  from  the 
old  camp  and  fixed  up  our  quarters,  and  for  the  tirst 
time  in  many,  many  days,  drew  full  rations  of  flour. 

The  weather  was  favorable  and  that  was  a  busy, 
merry,  happy  day  for  the  boys  of  the  Thirty-seventh 
Indiana.  We  spent  the  24th  also  in  improving  our 
quarters,  building  mud  chimneys  and  fire-places.  Po 
licing  our  camp  and  having  dress  parade  were  the 
duties  imposed  on  us  for  some  days.  The  weather  was 
very  fine  and  the  general  health  of  the  Regiment  good. 
About  this  time  the  question  of  re-enlistment,  and  a 
furlough  was  sprung  on  the  old  soldiers.  That  was  at 
that  time  the  common  subject  of  conversation  in  the 
army.  "Re-enlist  and  get  a  furlough"  was  urged  quite 
frequently.  Details  from  the  Regiment  for  work  on  the 
forts  about  the  city  on  the  27th  and  28th  were  made. 
The  30th  the  Regiment  went  to  town  to  do  fatigue  duty, 
but  returned  without  working.  The  31st  it  rained  till 
near  evening. 

February  the  1st  was  nice,  as  most  of  the  days  had 
been  for  some  time.  We  drilled  on  the  3d,  and  a  detail 
worked  on  the  fort  under  Lieut.  Sage.  The  4th  and  5th 


70  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

passed  without  interest,  and  a  detail  went  on  picket  on 
the  6th  under  Lieut.  Tevis.  That  was  a  disagreeable 
day.  Th'eytfe.  we  saw  the 'railway  depot  burn  in  town, 
and  on  the  8th  we  had  dress  parade,  and  on  the  9th 
Battalion  drill.  Nothing  of  importance  occurred  till 
the  llth,  when  the  Regiment  signed  the  pay  roll  for  two 
months'  pay.  Gen.  Mansfield  arrived  on  the  12th.  His 
mission  was  to  encourage  the  soldiers  to  re-enlist  He 
addressed  the  Thirty-seventh  on  that  subject  the  12th  of 
February.  On  the  13th  Co.  A  re-enlisted  as  veterans. 

^  e  na<l  dress  parade  in 
the  evening,  Capt.  J.  B. 
Reeve  in  command  of 
the  Regiment,  he  having 
recently  been  returned 
to  the  Regiment. 

From     this   on     to    the 
18th   nothing  unusual  oc 
curred   excepting  that   it 
*  was   getting   colder.      On 

the  19th  a  number  of  Co- 
F  called  on  the  writer, 
who  had  returned  from 
Indiana,  where  he  had 

Seieeter  Thackery.  Co.  D.  been  sent   to  recruit.     He 

Baiistown.  ind.  gave   t}iem  a   description 

of  the  land  north  that  "flowed  with  milk  and  honey." 
On  the  21st  we  received  orders  for  a  reconnoissance, 
which  proved  to  be  the  campaign  to  Buzzard  Roost  and 
Dalton.  At  this  time  the  Thirty-seventh  Regiment  was 
a  part  of  the  third  Brigade  of  the  first  division  of  the 
fourteenth  corps.  Col.  Hambright,  of  the  Seventy-eighth 
Pennsylvania,  commanded  the  Brigade,  and  Gen.  1\.  W. 
Johnson  commanded  the  division.  It  was  nearly  noon 
of  the  22d  when  we  started  on  the  march,  and  we  went 


INDIANA    VOLl'NTEEK   INFANTRY. 


71 


on  tiii  night  and    camped  near  Ring-old  for  the  night. 
We  knew  nothing-  of  where,  or  for  what  we  were  going. 

We  passed  through  Ringold  the  morning  of  the 
23d.  We  had  not  gone  far  before  our  cavalry  began 
skirmishing  with  the  enemy.  The  fighting  was  kept  up 
all  day,  sometimes  rising  to  the  dignity  of  a  battle.  That 
night  we  camped  near  Tunnel  hill,  at  which  place  the 
enemy  was  strongly  fortified.  We  picketed  the  left 
Hank  of  our  army  that  night.  On  the  morning  of  the 
24th  our  pickets  were  attacked  by  the  enemy's  cavalry, 
but  our  army  marched 
on  as  if  nothing  were  op 
posing  it. 

It  soon  became  ap 
parent  that  we  had 
found  a  strong  force  of 
the  enemy.  They  had  a 
battery  posted  on  an  emi 
nence  in  our  front,  which 
they  handled  with  con 
summate  skill.  The  firing 
was  too  fierce  for  the  cav 
alry,  and  as  they  retired 
the  infantr  took  their 


Capt.  G.  W.  Meyer.  Co.  1. 
Chattanooga.  Teiin. 


place.  We  were  in  the 
highway  and  had  to  move 
out  into  the  timber  for  shelter,  and  to  conceal  our  move 
ments  from  the  enemy.  One  of  the  enemy's  shells 
struck  under  the  horse  (a  white  one)  of  Gen.  Whipple, 
chief  of  staff  of  Gen.  Thomas,  before  we  got  into  the 
woods.  The  noise  of  the  artillery  and  musketry  was 
equal  to  that  of  a  real  battle,  yet  our  loss  was  slight,  as 
the  place  was  easily  taken  by  a  flank  movement.  That 
night  we  slept  in  the  old  rebel  camp,  and  warmed  our 
selves  by  tires  made  from  material  they  had  gathered 


72 


HISTOKY  OF  THK  THIRTY-SEVENTH 


On  the  25th  we  heard  heavy  firing  in  our  front,  and 
pushed  forward  with  all  possible  speed.  By  night  our 
army  had  driven  the  enemy  back  to  Buzzard  Roost  Gap 
in  front  of  Daiton,  Ga.  This  gap  was  an  impregnable 
position  against  any  attack  from  the  front.  It  is  sit 
uated  in  Rocky  Face  ridge,  1,000  feet  high,  through 
which  Mill  creek,  a  small  stream,  runs;  also  the  Western 
and  Atlanta  railroad.  This  was  Gen.  Johnston's  bul 
wark  in  May  following,  and  which  Sherman,  with  his 
army  of  120,000,  had  to  flank  by  passing  through  Snake 

Creek  Gap   several  miles 
south. 

The  Twenty-fourth  Illi 
nois  on  the  24th  was  in 
front,  commanded  by  the 
gallant  Col.  Mihilotzy. 
He  requested  that  the 
Thirty-seventh  Indiana 
support  him  as  he  as 
saulted  the  enemy's  posi 
tion,  which  it  did,  Capt. 
Hezekiah  Shook,  of  Co. 
D,  being  in  command. 
Two  Companies  of  the 
Thirty-seventh — I),  com 
manded  by  Lieut.  Hunt, 
of  Co.  K,  and  K,  commanded  by  Capt.  J.  B.  Reeve,  were 
thrown  forward  as  advance  pickets  of  the  other  Com 
panies  of  the  Thirty-seventh.  It  was  dark  as  we  ap 
proached  the  foot  of  a  spur  of  the  high  hill.  The  enemy 
was  on  this  spur  in  force,  and  while  Col.  Mihilotzy  was 
establishing  his  line  near  it  he  was  mortally  wounded. 
He  fell  and  died  there.  Companies  K  and  I)  made 
breast-works  of  logs  and  rails,  close  to  the  rear  of  the 
Twenty-fourth  Illinois,  and  the  remainder  of  the  Thirty- 


Lieut.  W.  R.  Hunt.  Co.  K. 
Treaty.  Ind. 


INDIANA  VOLrXTKKK  INFANTRY.  73 

seventh  lay  some  considerable  distance  in  our  rear.  We 
dare  not  take  out  our  blankets,  or  remove  our  accouter- 
ments  all  night.  We  lay  and  shook  and  shivered,  with 
the  ground  freezing  around  us  all  night,  and  wondered 
if  the  Johnnies  would  not  freeze  before  day  in  their 
cotton  summer  clothes.  But  they  amused  themselves  all 
night  shooting  at  us  at  distressingly  short  range — some-, 
times  firing  by  files,  and  sometimes  by  volleys.  We  sup 
pose  they  had  a  great  deal  of  fun  that  night,  and  that 
none  of  them  froze. 

The  eight  Companies  of  the  Thirty-seventh  that 
were  in  our  rear  fell  back  a  few  hundred  yards  some 
time  in  the  night,  and  Companies  D  and  K,  a  consider 
able  distance  apart,  held  their  positions  till  daylight. 

The  Twenty-fourth  Illinois,  which  was  a  short  dis 
tance  in  our  front,  was  very  close  to  the  enemy,  and 
quiet  since  the  death  of  their  Colonel.  Sometime  before 
day  the  enemy  opened  a  fearful  fire  on  them  and  us. 
We  could  see  the  fire  leaping  from  their  guns,  and  hear 
the  bullets  whizzing  past  our  heads.  This  stampeded  the 
Twenty-fourth,  and  they  came  back  pell  mell,  some  of 
them  running  right  over  our  works.  James  Hall,  of  Co. 
K.  was  sitting  behind  our  little  works  with  his  left  hand 
holding  his  gun,  which  was  leaned  against  the  works. 
while  he  gazed  intently  at  the  front.  A  Twenty-fourth 
man  running  back  with  all  his  might,  and  not  seeing  us 
or  our  breast-works,  fell  over  it  upon  Hall's  arm  and  lay 
there.  "Jim"  never  looked  at  him,  but  taking  him  by 
the  collar  with  his  right  hand,  threw  him  to  the  rear  as 
if  he  had  been  a  cat.  Some  little  time  after  this  the 
rebels  opened  a  furious  fire  again,  and  we  felt  sure  they 
would  charge  us. 

Capt.  Reeve  told  us  to  hold  our  tiro  till  they  got 
close  to  us,  but  none  did  it  but  myself.  I  saw  a  large 
fellow  coming  down  the  hill  through  the  bushes  as  if 


(4  IIISTOKY   OF  TMK  Til  I  KT  Y-S.K  V  KNTI I 

determined  to  be  the  first  man  to  demand  our  surrender. 
Our  men  were  re-loading  their  guns,  and  when  he^got 
close  enough  I  aimed  and  lired,  and  saw  the  man  I  shot 
at  spring  and  stagger  to  one  side  into  the  thick  bushes, 
and  as  he  did  so  his  blue  uniform  showed  out  clearly.  I 
knew  that  I  had  shot  a.  Union  soldier — a  Twenty-fourth 
Illinois  man,  and  my  heart  sank  within  me.  After  that 
for  a  time  I  took  little  interest  in  what  was  going  on. 
But  I  was  sure  that  no  one  but  myself  knew  what  I  had 
done,  and  I  determined  to  tell  no  one.  Sometime  in 
the  afternoon  we  learned  that  a  Twenty-fourth  Illinois 
man  had  been  wounded  in  the  foot  as  he  was  coming 
off  the  field  that  morning. 

To  have  heard  that  the  war  was  over  would  have 
given  me  no  more  pleasure  than  did  that  news.  I  never 
knew  that  anyone  knew  what  I  had  done  till  some  three 
weeks  afterwards,  Capt.  Reeve  said  to  me  one  day  : 
•'Well,  Puntenney,  you  came  pretty  nearly  getting  that 
Dutchman.7'  He  said  he  saw  it  all,  but  thought  it  best 
to  say  nothing  about  it  at  the  time.  I  sincerely  hope  he 
got  well  and  is  now  drawing  a  large  pension  for  the  dis 
ability  he  received  while  in  the  discharge  of  his  duty 
in  vigorously  conducting  a  masterly  retreat  from  the 
most  dangerous  place  a  man  ever  occupied.  But  to 
return  to  the  Companies,  I),  and  K. 

Capt.  lieeve  sent  Newton  Cowan  to  the  rear  to  in 
form  our  commander  of  our  position,  and  for  orders. 
He  returned  and  reported  that  the  Regiment  was  gone. 
The  ( 'aptain  then  sent  him  to  Col.  Hambright — to 
Brigade  headquarters.  He  returned  with  orders  to  fall 
back  to  our  Regiment,  which  the  two  Companies  did 
without  the  loss  of  a  man.  We  went  back  about  half  a 
mile,  I  think,  and  lay  there  all  day.  The  Nineteenth 
Illinois  kept  up  a  pretty  fierce  fight  on  the  left  side  of 
the  gap  all  afternoon,  and  got  several  men  killed  and 


INDIANA    YOU   NTKKK    INFANTKY.  75 

wounded.  Orders  were  given  to  fall  back  quietly  after 
dark,  and  Co.  K  was  given  the  position  of  rear  guard. 
After  dark  the  army  began  to  move  back,  making  no 
noise  but  that  made  by  the  artillery  wagons,  and  it 
seemed  that  they  made  more  noise  that  soft,  balmy 
night,  than  common. 

Co.  K  formed  across  a  narrow  place  between  the 
hills  through  which  the  road  leading  back  ran.  The 
men  were  standing  about  twenty  feet  apart  facing  the 
enemy,  waiting  till  the  army  would  get  a  good  start- 
While  waiting  we  could  hear  trains  arriving  at  Dal  ton 
and  unloading  soldiers.  We  could  hear  them  laugh  and 
talk  just  as  we  had  done  many  times.  They  asked 
where  we  were,  and  how  many  of  us  there  were,  saying 
they  would  clean  us  out  to-morrow.  About  9  o'clock 
the  moon  arose  in  all  its  splendor,  and  we  were  still 
standing  there,  and  no  enemy  appearing  to  follow  our 
army,  we  were  ordered  to  fall  back  and  join  our  com 
mand,  which  we  did. 

The  moon  shone  brightly  and  it  seemed  that  all 
nature  was  at  rest,  and  we  were  at  ease.  A  great  many 
good  men  had  lost  their  lives  the  day  and  night  before, 
and  F  am  now  pained  to  say  that  that  did  not  greatly 
distress  us.  We  were  soldiers,  and  acted  as  such. 

We  marched  on  till  about  midnight  feeling  per 
fectly  secure,  when  suddenly  the  roar  of  a  cannon  was 
heard  in  our  rear.  The  enemy  had  learned  of  our  de 
parture  and  were  following  us,  but  the  cavalry  kept 
them  at  a  respectful  distance.  They  did  nothing  more 
than  banter  us  by  bragging  about  Chickamauga.  We 
went  into  camp  near  Hingold,  not  fearing  the  enemy. 
We  remained  in  camp  the  next  day — the  27th,  until 
about  noon,  when  we  started  on  our  return  trip,  and 
arrived  at  our  destination,  Tyner's  Station,  that  evening, 
some  twentv  miles  from  Buzzard  Roost. 


76  HISTORY   OK  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Tyner  Station  is  a  small  village  on  the  Tennessee 
and  Georgia  R.  R.  The  morning  of  the  28th  we  estab 
lished  our  camp  on  the  high  ground  near  the  village. 
The  weather  had  been  nice  for  some  days,  but  on  the 
1st  of  March  it  rained,  turning  cold.  On  the  2d,  the 
Fifteenth  corps  passed  our  camp  moving  east,  on  their 
way  to  Cleveland.  We  tixed  up  nice  quarters  there  and 
made  ourselves  quite  comfortable.  The  weather  was 
nice  until  the  6th,  when  the  pay-master  arrived.  For 
several  days  veteran  troops  who  had  been  home  on 
veteran  furlough  were  returning.  It  was  quite  rainy 
from  the  7th  to  15th.  In  the  meantime  we  were  picket 
ing,  guarding  and  doing  camp  duty.  Companies  B,  C 
and  D  having  veteranized,  marched  to  Chattanooga  the 
14th,  where  they  received  transportations  home  on  a 
thirty  days'  furlough. 

The  Twenty-first  Ohio  returned  the  14th,  having 
been  home  on  furlough.  Co.  I  returned  the  15th  (a 
cold  day),  having  been  home  on  a  veteran  furlough. 
We  received  marching  orders  the  18th  with  two  days' 
rations,  and  started  on  the  19th  and  arrived  at  our  desti 
nation,  Graysville,  Ga.,  distant  from  Tyner's  Station 
about  six  miles.  We  went  into  camp  on  a  gently  sloping 
hillside  near  the  village.  Graysville  was  then  and  is 
yet  a  small  place — a  mere  station.  While  on  this 
march  Lieut.  Speer,  who  had  been  home  on  a  recruiting 
furlough,  joined  us.  At  Tyner's  we  made  our  tents 
quite  comfortable.  It  was  warm  and  when  not  on 
guard  duty  we  slept  nicely.  On  the  22d  we  were  or 
dered  to  march  with  two  days'  rations  to  Parker's  (Jap 
for  picket  duty.  Parker's  Gap  is  a  deh'le  in  the  White 
Oak  mountains,  and  about  six  miles  from  Tyner's 
Station. 

When  we  got  up  on  the  morning  of  the  22d  we 
found  fully  ten  inches  of  snow  on  the  ground,  and  snow 


'iXDIAN'A    VOU'NTKKK    INFANTRY.  77 

still  falling  rapidly.  After  a  very  poor  breakfast  we 
.started  to  the  gap.  going  nearly  all  the  way  through  a 
pine  woods.  The  small  pines  were  bent  by  the  weight 
of  the  snow  till  their  tops  in  many  cases  touched  the 
ground.  All  were  heavily  burdened  with  snow.  Shake 
one  of  them  ever  so  slightly  as  you  went  under  it,  and 
an  avalanche  of  snow  would  fall  down  on  you,  causing 
you  to  feel  very  uncomfortable.  The  march,  with  all 
the  accouterments  which  a  soldier  needed  at  that  time  of 
the  year,  through  that  deep  snow,  was  very  tiresome. 
We  iinally  arrived  at  our  destination,  placed  our  pickets 
out  and  scraped  the  snow  off  the  ground  w^here  we  in 
tended  to  sleep  when  night  came.  A  less  inviting  place 
for  sleeping  than  that  was  is  seldom  seen  even  by  a 
soldier.  The  only  good  thing  that  could  be  truthfully  said  of 
the  place  was,  "there  were  no  gray  backs  there."  We 
gathered  wood,  built  fires  and  dried  the  ground  where 
we  slept  that  night.  The  next  morning  we  recon- 
noitered  the  gap  in  the  mountain  but  found  no  enemy. 
The  Twenty-tirst  Ohio  relieved  us  on  the  24th  and  we 
returned  to  our  camp  and  had  a  good  sleep.  It  rained 
and  snowed  the  next  day  and  made  it  necessary  for  us  to 
ditch  around  our  quarters.  We  had  dress  parade  on  the 
27th,  Capt.  Hughes  in  command  of  the  Regiment.  On 
the  28th  we  went  again  to  Parker's  (rap  with  live  days' 
rations.  Nothing  of  any  importance  occurred  while 
there.  We  remained  there  till  April  1st.  when  we 
returned  to  camp  at  (iraysville. 

About  the  only  duty  we  had  at  Graysville  was  police 
duty,  guard  duty  and  an  occasional  scout,  with  more  or 
less  company  drill.  Veterans  were  returning  from  their 
furloughs,  and  had  brought  some  of  the  sports  and  vices 
of  civil  life  with  them  and  introduced  them  into  camp. 
Cards  and  dice  and  novel  reading  were  discarded  for 
home  fun.  That  was  dancing.  All  the  spare  time  most 


HISTORY  OF  THK  THIRTY-SEVENTH 


of  the  men  had,  especially  in  the  evenings,  was  devoted 
to  dancing-.  Nearly  every  Company  had  one  or  more 
tiddlers,  and  "the  sound  of  music  and  dancing"  was 
heard  all  along  tli3  line.  All  knew  they  were  on  the 
eve  of  starting  on  a  campaign,  the  like  of  which  had 
never  been  on  the  continent,  and  in  which  many  of 
them  would  lay  down  their  lives  and  lay  mangled  on 
bloody  fields  of  battle,  yet  they  danced  as  merrily  as  if 
they  had  been  at  home  in  time  of  profound  peace.  Man 
is  a  curious  creature.  On  the  16th  of  April  we  had  regi 
mental  inspection,  Major 
Kim  ball  in  command,  and 
dress  parade  in  the  even 
ing."  Sunday,  the  17th, 
was  a  lovely  day,  and 
Col.  Ward,  who  had  been 
absent  on  a  court  martial, 
returned  to  the  Regiment 
and  was  gladly  wel 
comed  back.  On  the 
next  evening  Col.  Ward 
had  dress  parade  again- 
We  went  to  Parker's  Gap 
again  on  the  20th,  scouted 
for  the  enemy,  but  found 
none.  Drilling  and  dress 
parade  and  inspections  occupied  much  of  our  time  dur 
ing  these  days. 

All  understood  that  the  campaign — the  greatest,  and 
it  was  hoped  the  last  of  the  war,  was  about  to  be  en 
tered  upon.  The  veteran  Companies  C  and  D  returned 
the  30th  of  April.  The  2d  day  of  May  we  got  orders  to 
have  two  days'  rations  in  our  haversacks,  and  be  ready  to 
move  at  an  hour's  notice.  On  the  3d  we  inarched  in  the 
direction  of  Ringold,  Ga,,  crossed  the  East  Chickamauga 


T.  F.  Brown,  Co.  B. 
Cherryvale.  Kas. 


INDIAXA     YOl.rNTKKK    INFAXTKV. 


river  aiv.l  went  into  camp  in  the  afternoon  about  a  mile 
from  Hingold.  Tlie  situation  there  was  inviting,  and  the 
desire  to  remain  there,  perhaps  induced  the  men  to  tix  up 
their  quarters  nice,  indeed.  The  few  days  we  remained 
there  will  be  remembered  as  one  of  the  really  bright  and 
happy  times  in  the  history  of  the  Thirty-seventh  Indiana. 
Atthattime  we  learned  that  the  Thirty-eight  Indiana  had 
been  transferred  to  our  Brigade,  and  that  Col.  Scribner 
was  our  Brigade  commander.  All  our  division — the  first, 
was  assembled  at  this  place  and  camped  in  this  valley. 
The  tents,  all  white  and 
new,  set  up  according  to 
army  regulations,  pre 
sented  a  beautiful  ap 
pearance  indeed.  Vet  it 
all  looked  like  war.  For 
some  time  each  Company 
had  been  drawing  can 
dles,  and  on  the  evening 
of  the  6th  we  received 
orders  to  march. 

The  men  knew  that 
meant  that  the  campaign 
was  on,  and  that  they 
would  need  their  candles 
no  more.  So  some  one 
in  Co.  A  said  he  would  illuminate  with  his  candles.  He 
cut  his  candle  in  pieces  and  brilliantly  lighted  his  tent 
and  surroundings.  Others  took  up  the  thought,  and  in  a 
few  minutes  every  Company  in  the  Regiment  was  burn 
ing  their  candles.  I  believe  the  craze  extended  through 
out  the  division.  The  night  was  calm  and  men  climbed 
trees  and  started  pieces  of  candles  to  burning  all  over  the 
tree  tops.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  10,000  lights  were  burn 
ing  at  one  time  in  the  tree  tops,  making  a  most  beautiful 


T.  B.  Peery.  Co.  E. 
Greens  burg.  Ind. 


80  HISTORY   OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

sight.  Thousands  of  men  yet  living'  remember  that 
grand  sight  and  the  enthusiasm  it  inspired.  Hundreds 
of  those  poor  fellows  never  saw  another  candle  after 
that  night.  That  was  the  last  quiet  day  and  night  of 
that  spring  and  summer,  for  the  morrow,  the  7th  of  May, 
ushered  in  the  Atlanta  campaign. 


CHAPTER  ELEVEN 

The  Atlanta  Campaign— Buzzard  Roost— Rocky  Face- On 
to  Resaca. 

Early  in  the  morning  of  May  7th  we  advanced  with 
light  hearts  and  firm  steps  toward  the  front.  We 
passed  through  Hooker's  Gap,  on  to  Tunnel  hill,  which 
was  occupied  by  a  strong  force  of  the  enemy.  We  ar 
rived  at  Tunnel  hill  about  3  o'clock  p.  m.,  on  the  7th, 
but  did  not  attack  the  enemy  that  night.  The  Four 
teenth  corps  was  in  the  center,  Hooker  on  our  right  and 
Howard  on  our  left.  On  the  morning  of  the  8th  the 
Thirty-seventh  took  a  position  on  a  hill  fronting  the 
enemy.  A  few  hundred  cavalrymen  formed  in  a  valley 
and  moved  forward  first  in  a  trot  and  then  in  a  gallop. 
When  they  got  some  distance  to  the  front  the  enemy's 
batteries  opened  on  them,  and  of  all  the  wild  rides  to  the 
rear  ever  seen,  that  was  the  wildest. 

The  tramp  of  the  fleeing  horses'  hoofs,  the  awful 
swearing,  clanging  of  sabers  and  carbines,  and  the  burst 
ing  of  shells  among  the  men  and  horses  made  a  scene 
never  to  be  forgotten.  After  remaining  in  that  position 
a  short  time  the  Thirty-seventh  moved  around  to  the 
right,  and  the  enemy,  seeing  they  would  be  flanked,  re 
tired  to  Buzzard  Roost. 

Before  leaving  that  position  the  enemy  poured  a  hot 
fire  on  us,  but  did  little  harm.  We  followed  the  enemy 
to  his  stronghold  on  the  9th,  skirmishing  with  his  rear 
guard  continually.  We  reached  Buzzard  Roost  about 
the  middle  of  the  afternoon.  The  Thirtv-seventh  had 


HISTORY   OF  TIIK  THIKTY-SKVENTli 

been  there  before,  and  was  placed  in  advance.  Com 
panies  A  and  K,  under  Capt.  .1.  I>.  Reeve,  were  de 
ployed  as  skirmishers.  We  moved  by  right  of  Com 
panies  out  of  a  field,  crossed  a  creek  with  the  other 
Companies  close  in  our  rear,  into  the  thickest  possible 
underbrush  imaginable.  It  was  a  pine  woods  that  had 
been  burned  over.  The  large  trees  were  dead  and  the 
undergrowth  of  shrubbery  very  thick.  As  the  enemy's 
shell  tore  through  and  burst  among  those  old,  dead  tree 
tops,  bringing  down  old  limbs  with  a  crash,  we  were 
almost  ready  to  conclude  that  pandemonium  reigned 
supreme.  We  were  subjected  to  a  severe  tire  from  the 
enemy's  batteries  and  rifles,  but  we  never  halted  nor 
wavered.  Shells  burst  over  the  heads  of  the  men,  and  in 
one  or  two  instances  plowed  through  the  Companies, 
but  they  caused  no  man  to  even  falter.  No  soldiers  in 
that  charge  were  more,  or  even  so  much  exposed  as  was 
the  Thirty -seventh  Regiment,  and  no  Regiment  acted 
more  calmly  and  defiantly  than  the  Thirty-seventh. 
One  felt  that  it  was  a  real  honor  to  be  associated  with 
such  a  body  of  strong,  daring  and  loyal  men. 

Gen.  Johnson  in  his  official  report  says  five  assaults 
on  Rocky  Face  ridge  were  repulsed  on  the  9th  day  of  May. 
The  assault  of  the  Thirty-seventh  was  made  on  that  day 
and  it  was  not  repulsed.  Its  men  slept  on  the  ground 
that  night,  protecting  themselves  as  best  they  could  from 
sharp  shooters,  and  a  battery  on  Rocky  Face  over  to  the 
left  Perhaps  this  battery  was  one  mile  away,  yet  it 
could  land,  and  explode  its  shells  in  our  very  midst. 
Some  Ohio  Regiment  was  taking  position  on  our  right 
and  the  enemy  shelled  them  as  they  were  doing  so.  As 
the  flash  from  the  cannon  was  seen  away  on  the  top  of 
Rocky  Face,  the  officers  of  that  Regiment  would  all 
shout,  some  saying,  "Here  she  comes,  boys!"  Others. 
"Steady,  steady,  boys!"  And  just  then  the  shell  would 


IMHANA    VOLUNTEER    INFANTRY.  8!> 

fly  screaming  over  our  heads  and  burst  near  that  Regi 
ment.  I  do  not  know  how  many  men  that  Regiment 
lost.  The  Thirty-seventh  had  several  men  severely 
wounded,  and  a  few  killed. 

The  enemy  was  concealed  from  our  view  and  we 
did  not  have  the  poor  satisfaction  of  shooting  at  them. 
It  took  courage  to  receive  the  tire  of  the  enemy  and 
have  no  opportunity  of  returning  it,  but  the  Thirty- 
seventh  had  that  courage.  We  lay  there  all  night,  and, 
strange  to  say,  slept  pretty  well.  Co.  F  supported  the 
pickets  that  night,  and  were  relieved  on  the  10th  by  Co. 
I.  The  skirmish  line  was  advanced  on  the  10th,  during 
which  the  Regiment  lost  two  men.  There  was  brisk 
fighting  in  the  evening,  and  it  rained  hard  that  night. 
During  the  llth  we  built  rail  and  log  breast-works  and 
skirmished  sharply  all  day.  On  the  evening  of  the  llth 
we  were  relieved  by  Stanley's  division — Fourth  corps, 
and  marched  to  the  rear. 

The  next  morning,  the  12th,  we,  with  the  rest  of  the 
army,  started  for  the  right  and  marched  through  Snake 
Creek  Gap,  a  narrow  defile  through  Rocky  Face  ridge- 
It  was  getting  dark  as  we  emerged  into  a  valley  on  the 
east  of  the  ridge,  near  Resaca  and  the  railroad  at  the 
rear  of  the  Confederate  armv.  It  was  night  and  dark 
when  the  Thirty-seventh  went  into  camp  that  night  on  a 
high  mound  or  nole.  On  the  morning  of  the  13th  as  we 
awoke  and  looked  over  that  valley  from  our  elevation 
the  grandest  sight  and  the  most  unexpected  was  wit 
nessed  that  was  ever  seen  on  the  continent. 

We  did  not  know  that  nearly  the  whole  army  'had 
marched  into  that  valley  before  us.  But  it  had.  There 
were  90,000  men  with  flags  and  banners  floating  in  the 
balmy  breeze  of  that  bright  spring  morning;  Regiments 
of  Cavalry  feeding;  scores  of  brightly  burnished  cannons 
shining  in  the  sunlight,  and  all  the  other  stratige  things 


84  HISTOIJY   OF  THE  THIKTY-SKVKNTli 

of  a  great  army  were  before  us.  Looking  at  all  these 
tilings  brought  to  mind  the  scripture:  "Fair  as  the 
moon,  clear  as  the  sun  and  terrible  as  an  army  with 
banners."  Not  many  times  on  this  earth  has  such  a 
sight  been  presented  to  mortals  as  was  that  which  the 
Thirty -seventh  saw  from  its  elevated  position. 

Johnson  had  fallen  back  to  llesaca  with  his  army  of 
70,000  men,  according  to  his  own  report.  He  was 
strongly  entrenched,  having  fortifications  thrown  up 
before  he  fell  back  to  them.  The  Thirty-seventh  having 
been  in  the  rear  the  day  before  was  placed  in  front  the 
13th  and  moved  out  slowly,  having  left  our  knapsacks 
where  we  had  slept  the  night  before. 

The  army  was  massed  in  that  valley,  and  it  took  a 
long  time  to  get  to  the  front.  Regiments — many  of 
them,  laid  down  and  we  walked  over  them.  Finally 
we  got  out  and  entered  a  dense  woods.  The  battle  line 
where  we  were  was  three  Regiments  deep,  the  Thirty- 
seventh  in  the  advance.  It  was  Thursday,  and  about  10 
o'clock  in  the  morning  when  we  started  forward,  going, 
I  think,  in  a  northeasterly  direction.  About  noon,  or  a 
little  after,  our  skirmishers  began  tiring  an  occasional 
shot.  As  we  moved  forward  the  skirmishing  became 
brisker,  but  not  very  tierce.  That  night  we  were  re 
lieved  and  took  our  position  on  the  rear  line.  Gen. 
Kirkpatrick  was  wounded  on  the  13th. 

We  supported  Carlin's  Brigade  on  the  14th.  He 
advanced  rapidly,  and  the  skirmishing  grew  in  tierce- 
ness  until  it  developed  into  a  battle.  That  was  the  tirst 
real  fighting  at  Resaca.  A  goodly  number  of  wounded 
men  were  carried  back  through  our  lines  to  the  rear. 
Poor  fellows !  Some  of  them  looked  pale  from  loss  of 
blood  and  pain,  but  I  do  not  remember  of  hearing  one 
of  them  utter  a  word  or  even  a  moan.  They  were  car 
ried  on  stretchers  which  were  soaking  wet  and  tiery  red 


INDIANA    VOLl'NTKKK    INFANTRY.  8f> 

with  patriots'  blood.  While  this  was  going  on  and  we 
were  standing  in  line  of  battle,  we  heard  of  Grant's  suc 
cess  at  Spottsylvania.  Wo  moved  to  the  left  a  little  that 
evening  and  put  up  temporary  breast-works.  The  battle 
raged  fiercely  all  day  the  15th,  and  neither  side  seemed 
to  have  much  the  best  of  it. 

The  left  of  our  line  of  battle  rested  on,  and  north  of 
the  railroad,  and  the  left  of  Johnson's  army  rested  on  the 
same  road  farther  east.  Trains  of  cars  of  the  Union  side 
arrived  at  our  battle  line  in  the  midst  of  the  tight  bring 
ing  provisions  and  ammunition,  and  returning  took 
wounded  men  off  the  field.  Trains  of  the  enemy  did 
the  same.  When  the  whistle  of  our  trains  was  heard, 
our  soldiers  would  cheer  and  the  rebels  would  cheer  as 
tlveir  trains  arrived.  Saturday  night,  the  15th,  we  were 
moved  in  the  darkness  to  another  position.  We  laid 
down  and  slept,  though  it  rained  most  of  the  night.  In 
the  morning,  Sunday,  the  16th,  we  found  but  a  few  poles 
for  breast-works,  and  while  trying  to  locate  the  enemy  a 
solid  shot  went  screaming  over  our  heads.  As  we  had 
no  works  and  the  enemy  only  two  or  three  hundred 
yards  from  us,  we  hugged  the  ground  as  our  best  friend. 

A  Prussian  Captain  of  a  battery,  who  wore  buck 
skin  breeches  and  was  called  "Buckskin,"  called  for  his 
men  to  bring  up  a  gun.  Almost  instantly  six  horses 
with  a  man  on  each  near  horse,  attached  to  a  cannon 
wagon,  galloped  furiously  forward.  In  wheeling  so  as 
to  point  to  the  front  the  wheel  struck  a  stump  and 
turned  over  the  cannon.  Then  another  came  and 
turned  into  position.  It  was  shoved  close  to  the  brow 
of  the  hill  and  tired  at  the  enemy's  cannon.  Rebel 
sharp  shooters  made  it  so  dangerous  to  load  the  cannon 
that  men  had  to  crawl  under  the  gun,  and  lying  on 
their  backs,  load  it.  The  Thirty-seventh  men  also  got 
position  as  sharp  shooters  and  did  much  toward  keep- 


8()  HISTORY    OF   TIN-;   TIIIKTY-SEVKXTII 

ing1  down  rebel  sharp  shooters.  In  about  two  hours' 
time  '•  Buckskin''  had  silenced  the  enemy's  battery 
and  we  had  but  little  to  do  that  day  but  listen  to 
minnie  balls  passing-  over  our  heads  and  to  the  roar  of 
battle  on  our  right  and  left. 

About  rnidnignt  the  enemy,  after  opening  up  on  us 
for  a  few  minutes  most  furiously,  and  receiving-  a  part 
ing  salute  from  our  batteries,  fell  back  across  the 
Oostenaula  river.  And  another  battle  had  been  fought, 
the  enemy  had  been  driven,  but  not  defeated  or  even 
routed.  Gen.  Wilder  says  if  Sherman  had  come  to  him 
as  he  should  have  done  when  he  was  in  the  rear  of 
Resaca,  Johnson  might  have  boon  destroyed,  and  it 
seems  as  if  he  were  right.  Resaca  was  a  great  battle, 
both  armies  losing  considerably.  Capt.  Reeve  and 
others  went  over  to  see  what  effect  "  Buckskin's"  shots  had 
on  the  rebel  battery  They  found  there  a  disabled  cannon, 
dead  horses,  not  a,  few,  and  pieces  of  almost  every  part 
of  the  human  body  lying  scattered  on  the  ground.  On 
our  right  our  army  had  taken  a  position  on  a  hill  near 
Resaca,  and  the  enemy  charged  it  in  the  hope  of  gaining 
that  position.  Many  dead  Confederates  lay  there  still  on 
Monday.  Several, had  reached  the  Union  line  of  battle  and 
were  killed  and  buried  under  the  earth  that  was  thrown 
up  for  works  while  they  continued  to  tight,  only  their 
feet  and  legs  being  uncovered.  More  than  forty  bullets 
struck  a  large  pine  tree  just  at  the  rear  of  Co.  K  that 
day.  On  the  morning  of  the  17th  we  passed  through 
Resaca  and  crossed  the  Oostanaula  river  and  followed 
Johnson  on  toward  Calhoun. 


CHAPTER  TWELVE 


Our    Army     Moves    Forward     to    Calhoun 
Pumpkinvine. 


Battle    of 


Xo  time  was  lost  or  rest  taken.  We  pressed  for 
ward  rapidly,  meeting 
many  prisoners  w  h  o 
were  being  sent  to  the 
rear.  The  advance  of 
Howard's  corps  kept  up  a 
lively  skirmish  with  the 
rear  of  the  enemy.  On 
the  18th  we  stopped  be 
yond  Calboun  for  dinner 
at  a  place  where  they 
said  Johnson  ate  his 
breakfast. 

\Vc  marched  through 
Adamsville  with  drums 
beating  and  flags  un 
furled  to  the  breeze — 
marched  till  late  at 
night,  and  camped  in  an  open  field  near  Kingston. 
About  noon  the  16th  we  passed  through  Kingston,  many 
prisoners  still  going  to  the  rear.  In  the  evening  wre 
moved  to  the  left  and  built  breast-works  that  night. 
The  next  morning  we  moved  forward,  passing  the 
enemy's  saltpetre  works,  and  camped  in  an  open  field 
and  threw  up  works.  Nothing  of  note  but  picket  firing 
and  some  cannonading  occurred  on  the  20th,  21st  and 


J.  H.  Connelly. 
New  Point,  Ind. 


8cS  HISTORY    OK   THE   Till  KT  Y-SIO  V  10NTH 

22d.  On  the  23d,  I  think,  wo  waded  the  Etawah  river, 
a  wide,  beautiful  stream,  the  water  being  about  three 
feet  deep.  Beneath  the  surface  of  the  water  are  many 
smooth  stone-*  standing  at  an  angle  of  about  thirty 
degrees  and  very  slippery.  The  men  hung  their  shoes 
and  stockings  and  coats  and  pants  on  their  bayonets  and 
waded  into  the  water. 

Skirmishers  were  making  it  lively  in  the  woods 
beyond  the  river,  and  the  men  being  interested  in  that, 
paid  little  attention  to  their  footsteps.  Consequently, 
several  men  stepped  onto 
a  slick  and  slanting  rock 
and  disappeared  beneath 
the  water.  Then  if  he 
knew  any  new  oaths  he 
delivered  himself  of  them 
while  his  comrades 
laughed.  Several  times 
as  a  soldier  laughed  at 
the  misfortune  of  another, 
he  would  step  on  a  stone 
and  go  under  the  water 
and  come  out  cursing  to 
be  laughed  at  just  as  the 
other  had.  There  was  Wm- IL  Scott-  Co-  K  died  June  20th 

1895.  Kingston.  Ind. 

more  fun  in  crossing  that 

river  than  is  often  experienced  in  an  ordinary  lifetime. 
If  I  am  not  greatly  mistaken,  it  was  at  that  time  and 
that  river  that  these  duckings  occurred. 

We  went  on  driving  the  enemy  before  us  till  the 
25th,  when  the  enemy  made  a  determined  stand,  and 
Hooker,  with  all  his  dash  and  courage,  could  not  drive 
him.  The  Thirty-seventh  was  in  llook<  r's  rear  during 
this  engagement.  Nothing  of  special  interest  occurred 
on  the  2ttth.  At  midnight  we  were  ordered  to  move, 


CAPTAIN  QUARTUS  C.  MOOR,  Co.  H, 
Elizabethtown,  Ind. 


INDIANA    \ OLl   N'I'KKK    INKANTIfY.  89 

and  did  so.  About  noon,  or  a  little  after,  our  whole 
division  was  massed  in  a  large  open  field.  After  stay 
ing  there  a  short  time  we  made  another  advance. 

We  have  now  come  to  the  battle  of  Pumpkinvine, 
sometimes  called  "Pickett's  mills,"  because  of  an  old 
grist  mill  just  in  the  rear  of  our  line  of  battle.  I  believe 
only  our  Brigade — Scribner's,  was  engaged  in  that 
battle.  The  Thirty-seventh  was  on  the  extreme  left, 
and  the  enemy's  right  extended  much  beyond  our  left. 

We  moved  noiselessly  through  a  dense  woods.  Not 
a  sound  of  war  could  be  heard,  not  a  rifle,  bullet  or  can 
non  shot.  The  happy  birds  sang  and  twittered  in  the 
trees  as  if  no  war  or  suffering  or  bloodshed  were  near. 
Oh,  who  will  undertake  to  describe  the  awful  stillness 
and  solemnity  that  sometimes  precedes  a  battle?  That 
is  well  understood  by  the  experienced  soldier.  We 
passed  a  squad  of  cavalry  which  had  gathered  under  a 
hill.  As  we  moved  on  they  said :  "Watch  out,  boys." 
About  6  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  May  the  27th.  the 
Thirty-seventh  halted  at  the  edge  of  an  open  field  and 
laid  down  a  few  minutes.  Everything  was  still  and 
quiet  as  a  Sabbath  morning.  In  a  few  minutes  we  were 
ordered  to  charge  across  that  field  into  the  woods  be 
yond  it.  We  rushed  across  the  field  into  the  woods  and 
then  were  in  the  battle  of  Pumpkinvine,  one  of  the 
fiercest  engagements  of  the  war;  and  there  the  men 
of  the  Thirty-seventh  showed  their  staying  qualities. 

As  they  went  into  the  woods  the  enemy  opened  on 
them  from  their  works.  Our  men  picked  up  rails,  old 
chunks  and  logs  for  breast-works  and  laid  down  behind 
them,  and  returned  the  enemy's  fire.  The  battle  raged 
furiously,  and  while  daylight  lasted,  rebel  sharp  shooters 
killed  and  wounded  many.  Hut  as  I  remember  it, 
night  soon  came  on,  but  the  lighting  continued.  Our 
brave  men  seemed  willing  to  make  any  sacrifice,  even 


90  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

that  of  life,  rather  than  be  driven  before  the  enemy  of 
our  country.  They  fired  their  last  cartridge  and  then 
took  from  their  dead  comrades  the  cartridges  they  had 
in  their  cartridge-boxes  when  they  fell,  and  fired  them 
at  the  enemy.  And  when  these  were  expended,  no 
word  of  complaint  was  made  as  they  heard  the  com 
mand,  "When  your  last  shot  is  fired,  use  the  bayonet." 

Right  gladly  w^ould  those  brave  men  have  obeyed 
the  order  to  charge  had  such  an  order  been  given.  As 
Comrade  Roberts,  of  Co.  F,  says,  in  speaking  of  that 
battle :  "If  duty  was  shirked  or  responsibility  trans 
ferred  there,  let  the  doubting  tell,  but  leave  to  us,  as 
comrades,  the  proud  memories  of  Pickett's  mill." 

William  Spear,  of  Co.  F,  and  fourteen  enlisted  men 
of  the  Regiment  were  killed,  and  about  sixty  officers 
and  enlisted  men  were  wounded  there  that  evening.  I 
can  only  remember  the  names  of  a  few  of  the  killed 
and  wounded,  and  therefore  will  not  give  the  names  of 
any  of  those  true  men,  further  than  to  state  that  Col, 
Ward  was  struck  on  the  cheek  with  a  minnie  ball. 

We  held  our  position  till  late  at  night — till  works 
could  be  constructed  at  the  rear,  and  until  our  dead 
and  wounded  were  carried  back.  All  the  dead  except 
ing  Lieut.  Spear  and  Private  Benjamin  Lenover  were 
taken  back.  Their  bodies  had  been  carried  back  part  of 
the  way,  but  for  some  cause  were  overlooked.  A  few 
weeks  before  this  battle,  Lieut.  Spear  had  returned  to 
the  Regiment  from  an  absence  on  a  recruiting  furlough, 
with  two  recruits.  One  of  these  died  just  after  the  bat 
tle  of  Resaca,  and  the  other,  George  Godert,  and  the 
recruiting  officer,  Lieut.  Spear,  lost  their  lives  at  Pump- 
kinvine.  Curious  occurrences  like  this  incline  old 
soldiers  to  become  fatalists.  It  is  easy  for  them  to  con 
clude  that  they  will  not  die  till  their  time  comes,  and 
that  then  they  will  die.  Hence  they  often  become 


INDIANA    VOU  NTEEK    INFANTRY.  91 

reckless.  About  11  o'clock  that  night  we  were  ordered 
back  and  moved  across  the  breast-works  that  had  been 
erected  at  the  rear,  and  laid  down  near  Pumpkinvine 
creek — "The  weary  to  sleep  and  the  wounded  to  die." 
Col.  Ward  informs  me  that  during  the  light  he  sent 
word  back  to  Brigade  headquarters  three  times  that 
his  Regiment  was  flanked,  and  that  each  time  word  was 
sent  to  him  to  hold  his  position  and  aid  should  be  sent, 
but  it  never  came.  The  reason  no  aid  was  sent  is  not 
creditable  to  the  Brigade  Commander,  and  I  will  say 
nothing  about  it. 

Comrade  Roberts  says  as  they  were  going  into  the 
battle,  J.  J.  Kirk,  of  Co.  F,  picked  up  a  rotten  looking 
log  several  inches  through  and  about  rive  feet  in  length. 
John  Withrow,  who  was  by  his  side,  criticised  him  for 
such  seemingly  useless  precaution.  Kirk  said  to  him: 
"You  will  be  glad  to  get  your  head  behind  this  log 
before  long."  When  the  battle  line  was  formed  and 
bullets  were  flying  thick,  sure  enough  Kirk  and  Withrow 
were  lying  side  by  side  behind  that  chunk.  As  the 
battle  raged  furiously  and  men  fell  thick  and  fast,  Kirk 
said:  "You  made  fun  of  me  for  carrying  this  chunk, 
and  just  as  I  said,  you  are  the  rirst  man  to  get  behind 
it."  Suddenly  Kirk  sprang  from  the  line,  his  face 
covered  with  blood.  A  rebel  bullet  had  gone  through 
the  rotten  chunk  and  into  his  head,  but  not  deep 
enough  to  prove  fatal.  He  went  to  the  rear,  leaving  his 
gun.  In  the  meantime  Withrow's  gun  got  out  of  order, 
and  he  reached  for  Kirk's  and  fought  to  a  rinish  the  job 
they  began  in  partnership.  So  that  chunk  saved  Kirk's 
life,  and  his  gun  for  future  battles.  Kirk  lives  in  Huron, 
Ind.,  as  good  a  citizen  as  he  was  a  soldier.  Withrow 
has  long  since  joined  that  silent  Company,  of  whom 
the  poet  says 

••How  sleep  the  brave  who  sink  to  rest 
By  all  their  country's  wishes  blest.'' 


92  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Sherman  in  his  memoirs  was  unfair  tons  in  failing 
to  mention  our  battle  on  the  27th.  Johnson  mentions 
this  battle  as  being  one  of  the  fiercest  of  the  Atlanta 
campaign,  and  says  that  the  tight  which  McPherson  had 
on  the  28th  and  of  which  Sherman  makes  favorable 
mention,  was  trifling  as  compared  to  this.  No  Regiment 
lost  more  men  in  that  battle  than  did  the  Thirty-seventh 
Indiana  and  Seventy-eighth  Penn.  Our  division  Com 
mander,  Gen.  Johnson,  publicly  congratulated  us  on  our 
valor  and  soldierly  conduct  at  that  battle,  yet  Sherman 
does  not  mention  the  fight. 

One  morning  two  or  three  days  after  the  battle,  a 
nice-looking,  old  gentleman,  wearing  a  tall  plug  hat  and 
a  long  linen  coat,  came  walking  along  the  Regiment, 
inquiring  for  Co.  K.  That  man  was  Chambers  Stewart. 
His  son,  John  M.  Stewart,  as  good  and  brave  a 
man  as  ever  lived,  belonged  to  Co.  K,  and  he  and 
Robert  Thompson,  of  that  Company,  and  a  good  and 
brave  man,  had  both  been  killed  at  Pumpkinvine.  Mr. 
Stewart  came  down  to  take  the  body  of  his  son  home. 

At  that  time  it  was  understood  that  no  citizen  could 
get  farther  south  than  Xashville,  Tenn.  An  old  citizen 
was  a  show  down  there,  and  his  purpose  seemed  absurd, 
in  view  of  the  fact  that  there  were  strict  orders  against 
sending  dead  bodies  home.  But  Mr.  Stewart  was  there 
and  requested  me  to  go  with  him  to  Gen.  Johnson's 
headquarters  and  get  permission  of  him  to  get  his  son's 
body  and  take  it  home.  I  had  no  idea  that  permission 
would  be  granted,  but  went  with  him  and  introduced 
him  to  the  General.  Mr.  Stewart  told  what  he  wanted 
and  handed  Gen.  Johnson  a  letter  he  had  gotten  from 
Gen.  Thomas.  To  my  great  surprise,  Gen.  Johnson,  who 
was  a  gentleman,  said :  "Yes,  Orderly,  get  an  ambulance 
and  take  your  Company  or  as  many  men  as  your  Cap 
tain  may  think  he  may  need  and  go  and  get  the  body." 


INDIANA  VOLrNTKKK  1NKANTKY.  91) 

He  wrote  out  the  order  and  I  took  it  to  Capt.  Reeve, 
and  he  sent  the  Company  under  command  of  Lieut.  Hunt 
with  an  ambulance  and  we  started  for  that  grave,  a 
distance  of  three  miles.  We  had  some  brisk  skirmishing 
to  get  to  the  graves,  as  our  army  had  swung  around  to 
the  left  and  the  enemy  followed  us.  We  took  one 
prisoner  during  our  skirmishing.  We  were  only  enabled 
to  drive  the  enemy's  pickets  back  by  making  them  think 
\\  o  had  a  great  army  with  us.  Lieut.  Hunt  put  our 
men  in  my  command  and  deployed  them  out  longer 
than  a  Regiment,  and  I  gave  commands  as  if  I  had  a 
Battalion,  while  Hunt  seemed  to  command  a  Brigade. 
When  our  Company  first  saw  the  enemy's  pickets  they 
commenced  firing  at  them,  which  seemed  to  amaze  Mr. 
Stewart.  It  seemed  strange  to  him  that  men  at  the  first 
sight  of  others  would  commence  shooting  at  them. 

We  took  up  the  body,  put  it  in  the  ambulance,  took 
it  to  the  railroad  station,  and  Mr.  Stewart  took  it  home. 
This  great  favor  was  granted  to  Mr.  Stewart  because  he 
was  a  kinsman  of  a  Mr.  Beattie,  a  civilian  who  was 
permitted  to  go  with  the  army  just  because  Gen.  Thomas 
liked  him  and  had  use  for  him  at  times.  Mr.  Stewart 
had  reached  Mr.  Beattie  by  telegram  and  got  him  to  get 
the  favor  from  Gen.  Thomas. 

At  that  battle  William  Davis,  of  Co.  K,  was  one  of 
the  color  guards,  and  was  lying  down  and  shooting. 
Thomas  Cox,  of  Co.  I,  was  a  short  distance  behind  him. 
A  minnie  ball  struck  W.  Davis  on  the  side  of  his  shoe, 
grazed  the  flesh  and  tore  the  sole  off  his  shoe,  and  went 
back  and  cut  a  piece  out  of  T.  Cox's  shoulder.  Davis 
says  his  leg  was  paralyzed  for  a  time  and  he  thought  he 
was  seriously  wounded.  He  told  Cox  that  he  was  hit 
and  Cox  said  he  was  too.  Davis  felt  down  for  his 
wound,  but  found  none,  and  his  leg  having  become  all 
right  again,  he  said:  ''Tom,  I  don't  believe  I'm  hurt." 


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Thomas,  having  examined  himself  in  the  meantime, 
said  :  "Xeither  am  I,  and  here's  at  ?em  again,"  and  they 
both  commenced  sending  bullets  to  the  front  again.  I 
feel  inclined  to  notice  another  curious  thing  connected 
with  the  battle  of  Pumpkinvine  creek.  After  the  battle, 
James  Leeds,  of  Co.  D,  was  missing.  Whether  he  had 
been  killed  or  captured  could  not  be  ascertained.  A 
week  or  two  after  the  battle  some  of  the  Thirty-seventh 
men  picked  up  a  scrap  of  paper  printed  in  Atlanta. 
This  paper  told  of  the  Confederate  loss  and  the  punish 
ment  the  Yankees  had  re 
ceived  in  that  engagement, 
and  revealed  the  fact  that 
James  Leeds,  of  the  Thirty- 
seventh  Indiana,  had  been 
wounded  and  captured.  James 
died  of  his  wounds  at  Atlanta. 

After  falling  back  on  the 
night  of  the  27th,  and  without 
knowing  or  caring  much 
where  we  were,  we  laid  down 
and  slept  in  an  isolated  posi 
tion  by  a  small  creek  till  the 
rattle  of  infantry  and  roar  of 
artillery  aroused  us  from  our  slumbers.  Fragments  of 
shell  \vere  falling  on  the  ground  where  but  a  few  min 
utes  before  the  boys  slept  all  unconscious  of  war's 
realities.  We  remained  there  all  the  day  inactive,  but 
exposed  to  stray  shot  and  shell  and  rifle  balls,  one  of 
which,  a  minnie  ball,  killed  a  Co.  I  man.  Another  man 
of  that  Company  was  wounded  while  the  Regiment  lay 
there.  All  day  long  the  firing  was  kept  up,  and  about 
an  hour  before  dark  the  conflict  on  our  right  arose  to 
the  dignity  of  a  battle,  and  closely  attracted  our  atten 
tion,  as  it  seemed  at  times  to  be  coming  nearer  to  us  and 


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threatening  to  involve  us  in  the  conflict.  We  after 
wards  learned  that  that  light  was  McPherson  repulsing 
an  assault  of  the  enemy. 

The  Confederate  General,  Joe  Johnson,  in  his  his 
tory  of  the  Atlanta  campaign,  criticises  Sherman  for 
speaking  of  this  fight  in  his  memoirs  and  ignoring  that 
of  Pumpkinvine,  which  was  of  much  greater  magnitude. 
Johnson  having  failed  to  turn  Sherman's  right,  Sher 
man  determined  to  turn  Johnson's  right.  His  failure  at 
Pickett's  mill  —  or,  rather,  Pumpkinvine  creek,  did  not 
cause  him  to  abandon  his  pur- 
pose.  He  persisted  in  this  till 
the  5th  of  June,  and  every 
effort  brought  on  a  brisk  en- 
gagement. 

The  morning  of  the  29th 
of  June  we  moved  to  the  front 
and  under  cover  of  a  hill. 
Our  division  —  Gen.  Johnson's. 
was  well  fortified  and  waiting 
an  attack.  History  says  Flood 
moved  against  Johnson's  posi 
tion,  but  finding  it  intrenched,  M.  i.  Bouiiy.  Co.  K. 
he  was  recalled.  At  this  place  Eiwood.  ind. 

Gen.  Johnson,  of  our  division,  issued  and  had  read  his 
order  complimenting  us  for  our  gallant  behavior  at  the 
battle  of  Pickett's  mill. 

The  old  mill  had  been  burned  since  the  battle  of  the 
27th,  and  on  that  day,  the  29th,  the  Thirty-seventh  In 
diana  and  the  Seventy-eighth  Pennsylvania  let  the 
water  out  of  the  dam  and  caught  a  few  fish  and  turtles, 
all  indifferent  to  the  noise  of  the  skirmishers  and  forget 
ful  of  the  dangers  past  and  yet  in  store  for  them.  The 
morning  of  the  30th  we  again  moved  a  few  hundred  yards 
to  the  left.  We  were  close  to  the  enemy's  works,  yet 


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they  were  scarcely  visible  because  of  the  dense  woods. 
The  country  there  is  a  succession  of  hills  and  ravines. 
There  were  scarcely  any  roads  there,  and  the  enemy's  po 
sitions  were  a  succession  of  ambushes.  Of  course  we  had 
to  feel  our  way  carefully.  We  pressed  on,  skirmishing 
and  expecting-  a  battle  before  night,  but  there  was  none. 
About  this  time,  I  do  not  know  the  exact  date,  the 
Thirty -seventh  lay  behind  strong  works,  and  in  front  of 
them  about  sixty  rods  the  rebels  were  also  behind  good 
w^orks.  Our  line  extended  far  to  the  north  and  east 
through  an  open  woods. 

There  was  lively  firing,  but  nothing  more.  All  at 
once  the  firing  on  our  left  became  very  fierce,  and  it  was 
evident  that  the  firing  was  done  by  the  enemy.  Then 
we  saw  our  line  of  battle  break  and  run  like  arrant 
cowards.  Our  hearts  almost  melted  within  us.  Soon, 
we  supposed,  the  enemy  would  swing  around  and  pour 
an  enfilading  fire  on  us,  and  the  battle  and  bloodshed 
would  be  fearful.  Just  then  we  saw  our  soldiers  return 
ing  to  their  places  as  fast  as  they  could  run.  They  got 
back  to  their  position  and  soon  drove  back  the  rebel 
forces.  Never  in  all  my  life  did  I  love  Union  soldiers  as 
I  did  those.  They  had  left  their  guns  behind  and  gone 
forward  to  intrench  themselves,  and  when  attacked,  ran 
back  for  their  guns,  got  them  and  held  their  position. 
Good,  brave  fellows  that  they  were ! 

Our  division — Johnson's,  was  the  extreme  left  up  to 
June  1st,  and  on  that  day  Hooker  passed  to  our  left,  and 
Schofield  to  his  left.  We  still  lay  in  our  trenches  so 
close  to  the  enemy  that  our  pickets  could  hear  them 
talking.  On  the  1st  and  2d  there  was  a  noticeable  ab 
sence  of  artillery  firing  all  along  the  line,  but  great 
activity  of  the  Infantry.  We  were  on.  the  front  line  on 
the  2d  and  near  the  enemy's  works.  About  9  o'clock  a. 
in.,  Col.  Sir  well,  who  was  in  command  of  the  Seventy- 


INDIANA    VOLl'NTKKK    INFANTRY.  97 

eighth  Pennsylvania  Regiment,  crawled  to  our  position 
as  we  lay  along  a  hillside  in  a  woods.  He  said  his  Regi 
ment  was  in  ambush  at  the  foot  of  the  hill  below  our 
left  in  a  hollow  and  without  any  protection  or  picks  or 
shovels.  Co.  F  being  on  the  extreme  left  of  our  Regi 
ment,  he  asked  some  of  the  Company  to  volunteer  to  go 
forward  to  an  elevated  point  in  a  field  where  from  ap 
pearances  a  battery  was  fortified,  and.  if  possible,  get 
some  picks  and  shovels. 

Three  men  went,  and  they  will  never  forget  that 
adventure.  They  ran  from  one  protecting  object  to  an 
other  to  the  point  for  which  they  started,  and  returned 
the  same  way,  rebel  sharp  shooters  sending  showers  of 
bullets  after  them  as  they  went  and  returned.  It  was  a 
most  perilous  undertaking,  and  that  not  one  of  them  was 
killed  or  seriously  wounded,  is  nearly  miraculous.  They 
got  no  intrenching  tools,  and  never  heard  how  the 
Colonel  and  his  Seventy-eighth  came  out  of  their 
perilous  condition. 

In  the  afternoon  the  rain  poured  down  in  torrents, 
and  there  was  hard  fighting  on  the  left.  At  the  close  of 
the  day  we  were  relieved  and  took  our  position  on  the 
second  line  of  works.  The  morning  of  June  3d  opened 
up  with  vigorous  skirmishing,  which  continued  incess 
antly  throughout  the  entire  day  and  most  of  the  night. 

Shrubs,  and  some  saplings  from  four  to  six  inches  in 
diameter,  that  stood  in  the  rear  of  our  w^orks,  w^ere  cut 
down  by  the  bullets  of  the  enemy — not  cannon  balls,  but 
minnie  balls.  Toward  evening  of  that  day  we  moved 
to  the  left  and  took  our  position  in  the  rear  of  our 
Brigade.  Jeff.  C.  Davis'  division  passed  in  our  rear  and 
formed  on  our  left  on  the  4th.  That  was  a  damp,  dis 
agreeable  day,  and  it  looked  as  if  it  might  have  afforded 
an  excuse  to  rest,  so  unpleasant  was  it.  But  not  so.  It 
seemed  as  if  the  exposure  to  mud  and  water  only 


98  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

irritated  the  contending  armies,  both  of  which  seemed 
to  fear  the  other  might  attempt  to  take  some  advantage 
offered  by  the  unfavorable  surroundings — the  disagree 
able  weather.  Consequently,  there  was  no  cessation  of 
Infantry  firing,  and  men  were  compelled  to  lie  in  the 
trenches,  though  they  were  muddy,  and  in  places  half 
full  of  water. 

Companies  A  and  B  were  detailed  at  night  to  go  on 
picket.  Companies  D  and  F  relieved  them  in  the  morn 
ing,  and  took  their  places  in  a  light,  drizzling  rain. 
Picket  firing  was  kept  up  with  great  activity  till  about 
10  o'clock  a.  m.,  when  quiet  seemed  to  pervade  the 
whole  line.  A  forward  movement  disclosed  the  fact 
that  Joe  Johnson  and  his  army  had  fallen  back,  and  at  noon 
we  rested  in  his  works,  which  for  nine  consecutive  days 
and  nights,  had  successfully  resisted  the  power  and 
valor  of  Sherman's  conquering  army.  We  rested  during 
the  balance  of  that  day,  if  when  bullets  were  whiz/ing 
over  us  can  be  called  resting.  That  afternoon  a  Co.  F 
man  went  over  to  search  for  the  dead  the  Company  had 
lost  and  left  in  the  enemy's  hands  the  night  of  the  27th. 
The  place  where  they  were  laid  was  found,  but  none  of 
the  dead.  The  next  morning  we  marched  to  the  left, 
passing  the  twenty-third  corps — Schofield's,  and  the 
twentieth — Hooker's,  and  saw  some  prisoners  who  were 
captured  that  morning  by  Hooker. 

On  the  morning  of  the  7th  we  moved  a  short  dis 
tance  and  went  into  camp.  Camp  rumors  were  un 
commonly  numerous  and  startling  that  day,  and  we 
threw  up  some  splendid  works  in  front  of  our  Regiment. 
We  were  then  near  to  a  place  called  Ackworth.  John 
son  in  his  retreat  gave  us  possession  of  Alatoona,  and 
the  railroad  to  that  point  was  being  rapidly  repaired. 
The  8th  was  a  comparatively  quiet  day  for  the  Thirty- 
seventh.  Xothing  but  picket  firing  in  our  front  die- 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INFANTRY.  99 

turbed  the  quiet.  We  had  been  on  that  campaign  then 
just  one  month,  and  remembered  that  during  every  day  of 
that  month  we  had  heard  the  roar  of  shot  and  shells  and 
the  wicked  whiz  of  minnie  balls. 

We  thought  we  knew  all  of  war's  hardships,  trials 
and  dangers,  and  could  anticipate  everything  that  could 
befall  us,  but  if  anyone  had  told  us  that  eighty  more 
days  like  those  of  the  last  thirty,  only  more  laborious 
and  trying,  were  in  store  for  us,  we  would  have  said : 
"No  man  can  endure  it."  But  those  eighty  days  came, 
and  most  of  our  brave  boys  who  escaped  the  minnie 
bullets,  endured  every  hardship,  braved  every  danger  of 
that  wonderful  campaign  and  marched  with  banners 
flying  into  Atlanta. 

We  continued  flanking  and  fighting  Johnson  and 
driving  him  and  his  army  back  from  one  line  of  earth 
works  to  another  till  he  took  a  strong  position  with  his 
right  extending  across  the  railroad  and  his  left  on  the 
mountain.  Gen.  Joe  Johnson,  not  being  able  to  maintain  so 
long  a  line,  contracted  it  till  Kennesaw  mountain  be 
came  his  center.  On  the  morning  of  the  10th  we  started 
out,  guided  by  the  sound  of  the  cannon,  and  determined 
to  continue  doing  our  duty,  no  matter  how  trying  or 
dangerous  it  might  be.  We  developed  the  enemy  in  the 
evening,  and  were  forced  to  move  slowly  and  cautiously. 
On  the  llth  we  took  our  place  on  the  second  line  and 
made  log  breast-works.  In  the  evening  we  moved  by 
the  left  flank.  Comrade  Roberts'  notes  says  it  rained 
the  12th,  and  we  were  ordered  to  stand  in  line  of  battle 
until  the  morning  of  the  13th,  which  we  did  with  the  rain 
soaking  the  earth  and  both  armies.  Nothing  out  of  the 
ordinary  picket  firing  occurred  on  the  14th,  except  our 
movement  forward  was  still  slow. 

We  went  about  a  mile  and  formed  a  line  of  battle. 
A  Co.  D  man  was  killed  bv  a  stray  shot  that  day.  We 


100  HISTORY   OK   THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

learned  through  the  signal  service  that  the  rebel  General. 
Polk,  was  killed  that  day.  There  was  sharp  fighting  on 
our  left  the  15th,  by  McPherson's  troops.  We  advanced 
our  line  on  the  16th  so  close  to  those  of  the  enemy  that 
we  could  plainly  see  them.  We  pressed  forward  on  the 
17th,  our  skirmishers  fighting  desperately  most  of  the 
time,  capturing  several  prisoners — one  of  them  seriously 
wounded.  All  along  our  battle  line,  several  miles  long, 
the  rattle  of  rifles  and  the  roar  of  cannons  could  be 
heard  from  morning  till  night.  Our  Brigade  moved 
through  a  rain  storm  on  the  18th,  to  the  left  of  the  third 
division  (Baird's).  In  the  afternoon  we  charged  across 
a  field  to  some  timber. 

While  charging  across  this  field  the  enemy's  artillery 
opened  on  us  with  all  its  fury.  Their  shells  burst  on  the 
ground,  throwing  dirt  and  rock  on  almost  every  man. 
A  Co.  cook  was  carrying  two  large  kettles  of  coffee 
on  a  yoke  across  his  neck,  and  a  shell  struck  the  ground 
and  burst  near  him,  throwing  dirt  in  his  coffee,  but  not 
hurting  him,  and  his  profanity  was  simply  awful  There 
Robert  Stewart,  a  bright  and  lovely  young  man  of  Co. 
K,  was  killed.  A  piece  of  a  shell  struck  him  and  tore 
out  his  bowels.  As  he  sank  to  the  ground  he  made  the 
pitiful  attempt  to  hold  his  bowels  in  his  arms.  He  dis 
posed  of  his  little  trinkets,  bade  the  men  that  stopped 
with  him  good-bye,  closed  his  eyes  and  said  ''Lord, 
Jesus,  receive  my  spirit,"  and  was  no  more.  Comrade 
Roberts  says :  "This  was  the  saddest  scene  in  my  three 
years'  service.'' 

We  pressed  on  rapidly  into  the  woods,  which  af 
forded  some  shelter  from  the  enemy's  artillery.  At  that 
point  Albert  Dunlap,  of  Co.  A,  was  terribly  mangled 
by  a  shell,  and  several  others  were  hurt.  That  night 
we  moved  back  on  the  second  line.  There  was  heavy 
tiring  all  that  day  along  the  whole  line.  The  enemy  fell 


INDIANA    VOU   NTKKR   INFANTRY.  101 

back  again  the  next  day — the  19th,  toward  Kennesaw 
mountain.  Our  skirmishers  captured  several  prisoners, 
one  a  mere  boy  about  15  years  of  age,  who  belonged  to 
the  Georgia  militia.  He  lay  waiting  patiently  to  be 
captured,  never  uttering  a  moan  or  complaint,  or  a 
single  petition  for  favors.  He  commanded  the  respect 
of  his  captors,  and  was  kindly  dealt  with  by  them.  At 
midnight  our  Brigade  was  placed  in  reserve,  where  \ve 
remained  till  the  afternoon  of  the  20th,  and  then  we 
went  to  the  front. 

The  enemy  resisted  our  forward  movement  deter 
minedly,  but  unsuccessfully.  Every  mile  of  the  ground 
was  fought  over,  and  at  last  the  enemy  settled  in  their 
stronghold  on  the  top  of  Kennesaw  mountain  an  im 
pregnable  position  by  direct  assault.  From  its  crest 
they  could  see  every  move  of  our  army,  and  they  sent 
shot  and  shell  with  wonderful  accuracy.  One  of  our 
batteries  engaged  theirs  the  afternoon  of  the  21st,  and 
made  it  quite  lively  for  a  time.  The  cannonading 
ceased  at  night,  but  the  pickets  kept  it  up  all  night.  Of 
course  it  rained  nearly  all  the  time,  making  our  duty 
the  more  disagreeable  and  laborious.  Sherman,  in  a 
telegram  to  Halleck,  noted  the  fact  that  the  21st  of  June 
was  the  nineteenth  day  of  rain  in  that  month.  On  the 
22d  we  moved  to  the  front  works  immediately  in  front 
of  Little  Kennesaw.  There  the  enemy  gave  us  a  fearful 
shelling,  but  we  were  behind  good  works  and  the  shells 
did  us  little  harm. 

About  6  o'clock  in  the  evening  it  seemed  as  if  every 
gun  on  both  Kennesaws  were  trained  on  us.  ,Then  our 
batteries  on  our  right  and  left,  and  Dilger, — ''Buck 
skin's,"  battery  at  our  front,  answered  every  shot  of  the 
enemy.  Such  a  noise  as  all  these  guns  and  their  shot 
and  shell  made,  I  trust  will  never  again  be  heard  on 
this  continent.  We  had  good,  strong  earth-works  and 


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were  comparatively  safe  by  keeping  close  to  the  works. 
Men  of  the  Thirty-seventh  Indiana  Regiment,  forget 
what  you  will  of  the  war  for  the  preservation  of  the 
Union,  but  you  cannot  forget  while  life  lasts  to  remem 
ber  with  pride  and  pleasure  that  22d  day  of  June,  1864. 
After  dark  that  night  we  were  relieved  by  a  Brigade  of 
Baird's  division,  and  moved  about  one  mile  to  the  right. 
We  here  relieved  a  Brigade  of  Howard's  corps,  and  laid 
down  to  sleep.  Strong  earth-works  had  been  con 
structed  here  at  great  loss  to  the  men  who  took  the 

position.  Many  graves 
were  here,  with  their  lit 
tle  wooden  head  boards. 
A  scalp  of  a  soldier  lay 
there  unburied.  A  can 
non  ball  had  struck  his 
head  and  left  nothing  but 
the  scalp. 

This  was  what  wag 
called  "Tater  hill."  It 
•was  an  extremely  danger 
ous  position  if  a  man  got 
out  of  the  trenches.  In 
those  trenches  the  Thirty- 
seventh  lay  ten  long  sum 
mer  days  and  nights, 
exposed  to  the  most  determined  and  incessant 
artillery  and  musketry  lire  of  which  it  is  pos 
sible  to  conceive.  During  our  stay  there  the  fun- 
loving  men  of  the  Regiment  would,  when  the  enemy 
would  cease  their  tiring  at  us,  climb  upon  the  works  as 
if  taking  a  view  of  the  enemy.  In  a  very  few  moments 
the  flames  and  smoke  would  leap  from  the  mouth  of  the 
enemy's  cannon  on  Kennesaw,  and  then  down  into  the 
trench  the  boys  would  jump  before  the  ball  or  shell  could 


J.  C.  Barnard.  Sergeant  Co.  B. 
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103 


reach  them.  They  had  lots  of  fun  in  that  way  and  caused 
the  enemy  to  waste  a  great  deal  of  ammunition.  Men  slept 
while  cannonading  was  shaking  the  very  earth  on  which 
they  were  lying.  One  evening-  just  after  dark,  some 
thing  caused  the  Federal  and  Confederate  artillery  to 
engage  in  a  battle.  All  our  batteries  were  throwing 
shells  and  exploding  them  at  the  top  of  Kennesaw  moun 
tain,  and  the  guns  of  the  enemy  on  that  mountain 
answered  shot  for  shot.  Certainly  no  one  ever  saw  a 
prettier  sight  than  that.  The  fuse  shells  fired  at  us  from 
the  mountain  top  could 
be  seen,  describing  a  beau 
tiful  curve  through  the 
air.  and  coming  at  us 
with  a  fearful  noise  like 
some  great  ball  of  fire, 
and  bursting  over  our 
heads. 

Picket  duty  there  was 
more  than  interesting. 
Pickets  had  to  be  relieved 
after  dark,  for  a  man 
would  have  had  a  poor 
chance  of  escaping  death 
to  go  in  front  of  our 
works  in  daytime.  But 
once  in  the  "hole  in  the  ground"  which  the  pickets  had 
dug  there  was  comparative  safety.  All  night  long  the 
pickets  kept  up  the  firing.  Nothing  of  any  great  mo 
ment  occurred  till  the  27th,  when  Sherman  made  his 
foolhardy  assault  on  Kennesaw,  and  lost  over  3,000  men. 
Joe  Johnson  estimates  the  loss  at  not  less  than  6,000. 
All  those  good  men  were  killed  or  wounded  for  nothing. 
Every  private  in  that  great  army  knew  that  that  assault 
would  prove  a  disastrous  failure.  That  mad  attempt 


Aiigustus  E.  Spencer.  Co.  F,  died  at 
Tiillahoma.  Aug.  8th.  1863. 


104  HISTORY  OF  THE  TFlIRTY-SKV.KNT.il 

made  many  a  widow,  and  caused  many  mothers'  hearts 
to  ache  for  dear  sons  sacrificed  to  no  purpose. 

At  our  rear  on  "Tater  hill"  was  an  open  field 
through  which  a  small  stream  ran,  and  at  which  we  got 
water.  At  the  side  of  this  open  field  beyond  us  was  a 
woods.  A  battery  of  parrot  guns  was  placed  on  this  and 
trained  on  Kennesaw.  A  straight  line  from  these  guns 
to  the  top  of  Kennesaw  would  have  struck  our  works. 
But  in  firing  at  the  top  of  Kennesaw  it  was  necessary, 
owing  to  the  distance,  to  give  the  guns  sufficient  eleva 
tion  to  shoot  several  feet  above  us  in  order  to  hit  the  top 
of  Kennesaw ;  and,  strange  to  say,  not  one  of  the  many 
shot  and  shell  which  that  battery  sent  screaming  over 
our  heads  exploded  before  it  got  to  us.  But  who  but 
those  who  heard  the  shot  and  shell  shrieking  a  few  feet 
above  us  can  form  any  idea  of  the  awful  piercing  noise 
they  made  in  passing?  And  I  confess  that  we  all  became 
very  tired  of  it.  The  30th  was  a  day  of  comparative 
quiet.  A  good  rain  washed  us  off  and  made  our  trenches 
look  and  be  something  like  a  good  hog  wallow. 

As  the  days  came  and  went  we  were  cramped  in 
the  trenches  and  exposed  to  the  sun  from  10  o'clock  a.  m. 
till  night.  \Ve  dare  not  go  out  of  the  trenches  in  the  day 
time,  for  one  would  not  be  out  thirty  seconds  till  a 
minnie  ball  would  admonish  him  to  seek  "his  hole." 
When  dark  came  then  we  would  crawl  out,  and  straighten 
our  limbs  for  a  few  hours.  After  remaining  in  this 
position  ten  days  we  were  relieved  one  dark  night  about 
11  o'clock.  Troops  crept  up  quietly,  and  in  whispers  we 
gave  them  our  places  and  began  moving  to  the  rear  and 
right.  About  a  half  mile  from  where  we  started  an 
artillery  wagon  lost  the  path  in  the  woods  through 
which  we  were  passing.  In  order  to.  find  the  path  it 
became  necessary  to  light  some  kind  of  a  brilliant  torch 
or  lamp. 


CAPTAIN  MAHLON  C.  CONNETT,  Co.  E, 
Bedford,  Iowa. 


INDIANA    VOLrNTKKlf    INFANTRY. 


105 


In  a  few  seconds  after  lighting  it,  a  flash  was  seen 
on  the  top  of  Kennesaw  two  miles  away,  and  here  came 
the  flaming  shell  which  burst  in  the  woods  near  us. 
The  torch  kept  blazing,  and  two  more  Hashes  from  the 
same  mountain  top  were  seen,  and  two  more  fiery, 
screaming-  shells  came  and  exploded  right  in  our  midst, 
but  hurting  no  one.  The  curses  and  threats  of  our  men 
became  more  dangerous  to  the  man  with  the  torch  than 
the  shells,  and  he  extinguished  it.  That  torch,  had  to  be 
lighted  three  or  four  times  before  we  got  out  of  that 

woods,  and  it  never 
failed  to  draw  the  enemy's 
tire.  We  marched  over 
to  the  right  and  front  on 
the  3d  of  July  and  built 
strong  breast-works,  our 
skirmishers  being  en 
gaged  all  the  time. 

While  we  were  thus 
engaged  large  bodies  of 
troops  were  continually 
moving  to  the  right.  It 
was  discovered  on  the 
morning  of  the  3d  of 
July  that  Johnson  had 
fallen  back,  and  we  were 
ordered  in  pursuit.  We  moved  to  the  left  as  far  as  the 
Marietta  road,  leaving  Big  Kennesaw  on  our  left,  and 
marched  through  Marietta,  a  beautiful  town,  a  few  of 
whose  inhabitants  watched  us  from  their  verandas  and 
front  gates,  but  uttered  no  word,  made  no  signs  or  ges 
tures,  and  as  far  as  I  know,  no  Federal  soldier  said  any 
thing  unkind  to  any  citizen.  It  was  a  solemn  procession. 
We  felt  sure  the  last  laugh  would  after  awhile  be  ours, 
but  we  did  not  want  to  laugh  till  the  work  was  done. 


John  P   Lynch.  Co.  G. 
Bath.  I  ml. 


HISTOKY   OF  THE  TH1HTY-1SEVKKT1I 


The  day  was  hot  and  \ve  hurried  on,  to  what  we  knew 
pretty  well  from  the  skirmishing  we  heard  in  our  front 
was  in  store  for  us.  The  heat  was  so  intense  that  many 
men  sank  down  by  the  wayside. 

Within  three  miles  of  the  town  we  found  the  enemy, 
and  the  familiar  sound  of  musket  firing-  again  greeted 
our  ears.  We  bivouacked  in  an  open  field  that  night 
and  listened  to  the  firing  of  cannon  and  rifles  till  we 
went  to  sleep.  Johnson's  army  was  there  near  Kuff's 
Station  in  force,  and  behind  intrenchments.  We  spent 
most  of  the  4th  in  this 
field.  Two  Brigades  of 
our  division  were  en 
gaged  fighting  most  of 
the  4th.  The  enemy  was 
in  strong  works,  prepared 
for  them  before  they  left 
Kennesaw.  Here  Col. 
Stoughton,  of  the  Eleventh 
Michigan,  had  his  leg- 
shot  away.  Johnson  fell 
back  again  the  night  of 
the  4th.  Col.  Ward  tells 
how  an  old  lady  resident 
of  that  place  described 
the  battle  there.  She  said  : 

uWe'uns  stopped  and  built  a  rail  pile  and  got  behind 
it.  Then  you'uns  sent  up  a  critter  company  and  shot  at 
we'uns,  then  you'uns  sent  up  a  foot  company  and  shot  at 
we'uns,  and  then  you  brought  up  the  cannon  wagon  and 
throwed  artillery  at  'em,  and  you  throwed  one  right 
through-  my  ash  hopper,  and  I  wouldn't  have  taken  two 
dollars  for  it.'' 

On   the   morning   of    the   5th   we   learned   that   the 
emy  had  fallen  back   again,  and  we  pressed  forward 


Samuel  Barbour.  Co.  G, 
Lett's  Corner.  Ind. 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INFANTKV. 


107 


and  found  them  again  a  few  miles  from  the  Chatta- 
hoochee  river.  Sharp  fighting  began  as  soon  as  we  found 
them,  which  continued  till  night,  the  Thirty-seventh 
taking  the  front  line  about  noon.  We  were  at  that  time 
at  the  right  of  the  railroad  and  about  ten  miles  from  the 
city  of  Atlanta,  which  was  plainly  visible  from  the  tree 
tops.  But  how  long  it  took  and  how  many  lives  it  cost 
to  get  possession  of  those  ten  miles ! 

The  familiar  sound  of  skirmishing  greeted  us  as  we 
awoke  the  morning  of  the  6th  of  July  and  erected  breast 
works.  Two  months  have  now 
passed,  and  every  day  of  that 
time  we  have  been  under  tire, 
and  many  of  our  good  and 
brave  comrades  have  been 
stricken  down  by  the  enemy's 
bullets.  And  but  for  the 
breast-works  we  had  made, 
more  than  half  our  number 
would  have  been  numbered 
among  the  dead  and  wounded. 
That  evening  a  Co.  G  man  was 
seriously  wounded.  On  the 
morning  of  the  7th  the  Thirty-seventh  went  on  the 
skirmish  line  with  Co.  F  in  reserve.  The  Thirty-eighth 
Indiana  relieved  us  in  the  morning  and  we  passed  to 
the  rear.  The  8th  was  passed  in  comparative  quiet,  no 
general  engagement  appearing  probable.  We  were  in 
an  open  woods,  the  ground  in  our  front  receding  to 
wards  the  Chattahoochee  river,  which  was  two  or  more 
miles  from  us.  The  enemy's  skirmishers  were  strongly 
intrenched  between  us  and  the  river.  A  severe  battle 
was  brought  on  the  9th  by  the  Twenty-first  Ohio  at 
tempting  to  advance  their  line.  In  this  fight  the  old  and 
true  tried  Twenty-first  Ohio,  which  from  Stone  river- to 


Henry  Stone,  Co.  G. 
Thorntown.  Iiid. 


108  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Atlanta  shared  with  us  the  fortunes  of  war,  suffered 
severely.  Many  of  the  men  of  the  Thirty-seventh  will 
remember  one  of  their  wounded  who  was  carried  back 
on  a  stretcher,  suffering  terrible  agony  from  the  remorse 
less  tourniquet.  The  ball  had  cut  the  main  artery  of  the 
leg,  and  that  device  was  the  only  thing  that  could  save 
him  from  bleeding  to  death. 

Moving  forward  on  the  morning  of  the  10th  we  dis 
covered  that  the  enemy  had,  during  the  night,  burned 
the  bridge,  and  retreated  to  the  south  side  of  the  river. 
Our  skirmish  line  advanced, 
and  found  them  in  strong  force 
and  vindictive  and  determined 
as  ever.  From  our  camp  we 
watched  the  opposing  batteries 
firing  at  each  other  across  the 
river.  From  this  point  we 
could  clearly  see  the  city  of 
Atlanta,  which  I  think  was 
seven  or  eight  miles  distant. 
We  lay  in  this  camp  a  few 
days,  drawing  clothing  on  the 
12th.  All  except  the  pickets  Jasper  N.  stuart.  Co.  u. 
passed  the  few  days  here  gath 
ering  blackberries,  which  were  plentiful.  We  re 
mained  in  that  beautiful  camp  eating  and  drinking  as 
merrily  as  if  no  enemy  was  near,  though  the  pickets 
were  firing  all  the  time.  We  all  knew  full  well  that  we 
were  liable  to  be  called  into  action  in  an  hour,  but  all 
acted  on  the  principle,  "Sufficient  unto  the  day  is  the 
evil  thereof."  We  received  orders  to  move  forward  the 
evening  of  the  16th  at  8  o'clock  the  next  morning.  On 
the  morning  of  the  17th  we  packed  our  little  earthly 
possessions,  and  stood  waiting  for  orders  to  move,  and 
listening  to  heavy  cannonading  at  or  near  the  river. 


INDIANA     YOU   NTKKK    INKANTKV. 


109 


Ours  was  to  obey  orders  and  the  orders  to  ''forward 
march"  did  not  come  till  noon.  Thon  we  marched  up 
the  river  three  miles,  to  the  point  selected  for  crossing. 
Here  was  a  pontoon  bridge,  and  amid  the  rattle  of 
musketry  and  the  heavy  boom  of  cannons  in  the  woods 
before  us,  we  marched  over  the  murky,  turbid  waters  of 
the  Chattahoochee  river,  and  formed  on  the  left  of 
Davis'  division. 

At  that  point  our  mail  came,  and   nearly  everybody 
got   a  letter  or  letters.     A  battle    was   imminent,  bullets 

were  flying  over  and  around 
us,  but  bullets  and  battles 
were  not  the  rarity  that 
sweet  words  from  a  far 
country,  and  loved  ones  at 
home  were,  and  we  got  on 
the  north  side  of  tree  stumps 
and  stones,  and  read  and  re 
read  the  messages  from 
•'home,  sweet  home."  In  a 
very  short  time  our  reverie 
was  broken  by  the^command 
we  had  heard  for  the  thous 
andth  time,  ''fall  in!"  We 
moved  forward  about  a  mile 
and  bivouacked  for  the 
night.  On  the  evening  of  the  19fch  we  reached  the  north 
bank  of  Peach  Tree  creek,  and  that  night  crossed  it 
with  our  division,  the  first,  and  made  intrenchments. 


Sergeant  Major  Marion  El  um 
Co.  K.  killed,  in  the  battle  of 
Atlanta. 


CHAPTER  THIRTEEN 


The  Battle  of  Atlanta  and  Siege  of  Atlanta. 

The  Thirty-seventh  was  on  the  skirmish  line  on  the 
19th  and  was  sharply  engaged  all  day.  Our  whole 
corps,  the  fourteenth,  was 
on  the  south  side  of  Peach 
Tree  creek  the  morning  of 
the  20th,  and  I  think  formed 
the  right  of  the  army. 
H  ooker  was  on  our  left,  and 
Howard  to  his  left.  Mc- 
Pherson's  and  Schofi  eld's 
corps  were  northeast  of  At 
lanta.  Hood  had  superseded 
Johnson  a  few  days  before 
this,  and  determined  to 
immortalize  himself.  On  the 
morning  of  the  20th  our 
army  moved  cautiously.  Co.  K  had  been  on  the  skirmish 
line  the  night  of  the  19th  and  joined  the  Regiment  on  the 
morning  of  the  20th,  away  to  the  right  of  its  skirmish  line. 
The  Thirty-seventh  and  our  Brigade  were  in  a  pine  woods, 
erecting  works  rapidly. 

About  10  o'clock  we  moved  to  the  right  and  took  our 
position  in  an  open  field  without  any  protection.  The 
heat  of  the  sun  as  we  lay  there  all  day  without  any  shade 
was  almost  unendurable.  For  as  much  as  two  hours  a 
rebel  cannon  belched  forth  grape  or  canister  shot  at  us. 
We  laid  close  to  the  ground  and  these  shot  would  strike  the 


Corporal  Isaiah  L.  Green.  Co.  C. 
Scipio.  Ind. 


INDIANA    YOU*  \TKKK    IN  FA     THY. 


Ill 


ground  in  our  front,  tear  up  the  grass  and  bound  on  over 
us,  but  I  believe  no  one  was  killed,  but  several  were 
wounded.  Time  passed  slowly  while  this  was  going  on. 
About  the  middle  of  the  afternoon  Hood  hurled  his  forces 
at  our  line  of  battle  on  flbr  left.  The  roar  of  the  battle  from 
the  first  "to  the  last  was  simply  awful.  At  no  other  time 
did  I  hear  such  musketry  tiring  as  I  heard  there.  We  for 
got  the  lone  cannon  at  our  front,  and  stood  up  and  gazed 
intensely  into  the  dark  woods  on  our  left  where  the  battle 
raged.  Indeed,  the  enemy  at  our  front  seemed  to 

have  been  as  impressed 
by  the  battle  as  we  were, 
for  they  had  quit  shooting 
at  us,  and  no  doubt  were 
anxiously  waiting  for 
news  from  the  battle. 

The  firing  at  our  left 
ceased  and  Hood  had  been 
defeated  with  great  loss. 
Indeed,  the  loss  was  heavy 
on  both  sides.  The 
ground  where  we  were 
sloped  in  front  upwards 
for  two  or  three  hundred 
yards,and  we  moved  to  the 
top  of  the  raise  and  began 
throwing  up  breast-works.  There  we  were  subjected  to 
an  annoying  artillery  fire.  Shells  full  of  bullets  were  ex 
ploded  above  us,  and  these  bullets  and  pieces  of  shell  fiew 
down  among  us.  That  was  a  beautiful  evening  as  the  sun 
sank  beneath  the  western  horizon,  and  we  worked  at  our 
intrenchments  and  the  enemy  shelled  us.  I'll  never  for 
get  the  conduct  of  Lieut.  Tevis  that  evening.  He  was 
dressed  in  a  nice,  clean  uniform,  and  strutted  back  and 
forth  on  the  crest  of  that  hill,  as  if  those  bursting  shells 


George  W.  Hungate.  Co.  E. 
Pleasautville.  la. 


112  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

were  harmless  soap  bubbles.  Our  boys  saw  an  officer 
on  a  white  horse  riding  in  our  front  about  a  half  mile. 
They  dropped  their  picks  and  shovels  and  got  their  guns 
and  opened  fire  on  him.  That  caused  the  battery  to 
open  on  us  with  renewed  vigor.  Sergeant  Will  Rankin, 
of  Co.  K,  was  lying  with  his  shoulders  on  his  knapsack 
and  his  left  wrist  on  the  top  and  front  of  his  head,  hold 
ing  in  his  right  hand  a  Christian  Instructor  which  he 
was  reading.  A  shell  exploded  away  above  us,  and  a 
fluttering  noise  was  heard  and  a  ball  from  that  shell 
struck  Ran  kin's  wrist, 
going  through  it  into  his  f 

brain.  He  died  almost 
instantly,  and  his  mem 
ory  is  still  held  in  loving 
remembrance  by  every 
living  member  of  Co.  K 
and  by  all  in  the  Regi 
ment  who  knew  him. 

When  we  started  on 
that  campaign  on  the  7th 
of  May,  John  M.  Stewart, 
Robert  Stewart,  William 
Rankin  and  myself  Isaac  N.  Harrison.  c<>.  K. 

formed  a  mess,  and  were  sterling.  Kas. 

close,  staunch  friends.  And  now  on  the  20th  of  July  all 
were  dead  but  me.  All  fell  in  battle,  and  I  was  with 
them  and  near  them  when  they  fell.  This  is  so  remark 
able  that  I  feel  that  my  comrades  will  pardon  me  for 
relating  it  here.  That  night  we  put  in  most  of  the  time 
till  daylight  throwing  up  works,  and  we  had  good  ones 
by  morning.  We  felt  safe  when  close  to  our  works  next 
day,  but  it  was  very  dangerous  a  few  feet  to  the  rear. 
Rebel  sharp  shooters  were  numerous,  and  evidently  had 
good  positions. 


INDIANA    YOU'NTKKU    INKANTKV.  113 

About  10  o'clock  that  morning,  the  21st,  Sergeant 
Major  Marion  Elston  came  along  to  the  rear  of  Co.  K, 
his  old  Company,  and  told  us  we  could  get  beef  at  the 
rear  and  foot  of  the  elevated  ground.  Just  as  he  told  us 
that,  he  turned  to  go  to  the  next  Company  to  the  right, 
and  as  he  turned  a  minnie  bullet  struck  him  at  the  side 
of  the  shoulder,  and  he  fell  to  the  ground.  I  and  one  or 
two  others  went  to  him.  The  blood  could  be  heard 
spurting  in  the  cavity  of  his  body,  and  he  asked :  "What 
is  that?"  and  on  being  told,  he  said:  "Yes,  that's  it." 

An  ambulance  had  been 
brought  as  near  as  it  was  safe 
to  bring  it.  and  we  carried  him 
back  and  put  him  in  it.  The 
ambulance  driver  having  a 

^  holy  terror  of  bullets,  drove  off 

«k          before  Marion  got  to  say  good- 
^  bye  to  us  or  we  to  him.  and  he 

waved  his  last  good-bye  to  his 
comrades     and    Regiment     by 
ink      raising    his  foot  up  and    down 
y::        iJB   |K    for  several    seconds.     He  lived 
fik  •  kut  a  snort  time   after  he  was 

Up.     KPP^-    taken    back.        His     loss     was 
keenly   felt   by   every   man   in 
James  Ruddeii,  Co.  K.  wounded  the  Regiment,  and  by  all  who 

at Stone  river.  Rushville.Iiid.     ,  ,  .  ,   i  •      i  •       TI»-I 

knew  him  at  his  home  in  Mil- 

roy,  in  Rush  county.  As  I  remember  these  noble  young- 
men — their  patriotism,  intelligence,  bravery  and  real 
worth,  I  am  constrained  to  say  that  the  noblest  young- 
men  of  the  North  wore  the  blue  and  fought  the  battles 
of  the  Union.  Skirmishing  continued  all  that  day,  and 
we  lay  behind  our  works  in  almost  perfect  safety,  not 
knowing  when  we  would  be  ordered  to  move,  nor 
where. 


114 


HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 


In  our  front  was  a  level  open  field  nearly  a  half  mile 
across.  A  small,  crooked  creek  ran  through  that  open 
space,  and  had  cut  its  bed  down  some  two  or  three  feet 
in  the  earth.  Our  skirmishers,  in  great  numbers,  had 
crept  into  that,  which  in  places  was  near  the  rebel  skir 
mish  line,  and  made  it  exceedingly  dangerous  for  a 
Johnny  to  expose  his  head  for  any  length  of  time  above 
his  works.  Skirmishing  in  our  front  was  lively  all  day, 
yet  many  of  the  Thirty-seventh  men  concluded  that  we 
would  remain  there  another  night,  and  about  6  o'clock 
in  the  evening  they  crawled 
out  and  made  coffee  in  their 
quart  cups.  About  the  time 
the  coffee  got  hot  the  men 
were  called  into  line  and  or 
dered  to  climb  over  their 
works  and  move  forward. 

The  order  was  promptly 
obeyed,  but  most  of  the  men 
held  their  cups  of  steaming 
hot  coffee  in  their  hands,  hop 
ing  that  by  some  delay  they 
might  be  permitted  to  drink  it. 
The  Thirty-eighth  Indiana 

John  M.  Stewart.  Sergeant  Co. 

Regiment  was  on  our  left  in  K  killed  at  the  battle  of 
this  movement,  and  it  and  the  Pumpkinvine  Creek.  Ga. 
Thirty-seventh  were  all  the  Regiments  that  were  en 
gaged  in  it.  The  line  made  by  the  two  Regiments  could 
not  have  been  more  perfect.  We  started  across  that 
open  space  at  a  "right  shoulder  shift,"  and  moved  rap 
idly  on  to  the  enemy.  Their  skirmishers,  who  were 
behind  strong  earth-works,  did  what  they  could  to  check 
our  advance,  but  could  not  do  much,  for  our  skirmishers 
in  the  creek  shot  at  every  head  that  appeared  above  the 
rebel  works,  and  we  moved  on  as  if  there  was  no  enemy 


INDIANA    VOLUNTEER   INFANTRY.  115 

in  our  front,  and  our  men  concluding  that  the  oppor 
tunity  for  drinking  a  good  cup  of  coffee  that  evening- 
was  poor,  poured  it  on  the  ground.  The  rebel  batteries 
in  front  opened  on  us  with  shot  and  shell,  and  our  bat 
teries  a  quarter  of  a  mile  in  our  rear,  sent  them  shot 
for  shot. 

Our   line  of   battle  never   stopped  or   wavered  for  a 

single  moment,  though  scores  of  shot  and  shell  came  and 

went  screaming  and  bursting  over  our  heads.     On  and 

on  we  went  with  the  certainty  of  fate.     We  were  within 

100   yards   of  the  enemy's  skir 

mishers.       They    were    behind 

very    strong    earth-works,    and 

jjBp  H|  when    they    saw   that    nothing 

"Vi  could    keep    us   from    walking 

Py'i  ,itjm  over    them    and    their    works, 

and    that  continuing  to  tire  on 

^          us     would    only     be      murder, 

"4flBk^  Bf    which  we  would  avenge  when 

BL^  we     came     onto     them,    they 

Ik  stuck  their   guns'  breech    fore 

most  over  their  works,  and  we 

j.  F.  spencer.  Sergeant  Co.  F,  marched    on  without   stopping 


detailed   to  take   the  prisoners 

to  the  rear,  and  on  we  went.  We  moved  into  an  open 
woods,  and  the  batteries  in  our  front  and  rear  were 
liring  as  rapidly  as  possible,  cutting  off  great  limbs  of 
trees  in  our  front  and  rear  and  over  our  heads.  Limbs 
of  trees  and  tree  tops  were  falling  nearly  all  the  time. 
If  one  wants  to  feel  how  frail  he  is,  he  should  hear  a 
cannon  ball  strike  a  tree  nearby  him. 

We  pressed  on  through  the  woods,  exposed  to  the 
enemy's  artillery  and  rifles,  till  Ave  were  near  his  works. 
It  became  evident  that  we  would  soon  have  to  halt,  and 


Ill) 


HISTORY   OF  Til  K  TI 1 1  HT  V-SK  V  KNTI I 


every  man  picked  up  a  log-  or  chunk  or  rail  with  which 
to  protect  himself.  At  the  top  of  the  little  hill  we 
formed  our  line  and  got,  behind  what  we  had  carried 
forward.  It  was  not  quite  dark,  and  the  enemy's  bullets 
were  flying  fast.  Darkness  soon  hid  us  from  the  view 
of  our  enemies,  and  we  began  digging ;  yet  one  man  was 
wounded  that  night.  I  never  learned  how  many  men 
were  wounded  while  making  that  forward  movement — 
none  were  killed,  I  believe.  The  ground  was  hard  and 
digging  was  very  difficult;  but  no  man  shirked,  for  all 
had  learned  the  value  of  in- 
trenchments  when  near  the 
enemy.  There  are  times  when 
the  old  soldier  will  work  and 
not  grumble,  and  the  more  bat 
tles  he  has  been  in,  the  more 
cheerfully  will  he  work  when 
he  is  near  the  enemy. 

Thirty-seventh  men  never 
worked  better  than  they  did 
that  night.  Though  the  ground 
was  hard  and  rocky,  they,  with 
very  poor  tools,  had  pretty 
secure  works  by  midnight. 
About  10  o'clock  that  night  the  silence  of  the  enemy's 
pickets  becamo  the  subject  of  comment.  Some  of  our 
men,  who  it  seemed  were  born  tired  and  daring,  decided 
to  investigate  the  cause  of  the  silence.  Some  men  nat 
urally  love  to  make  adventures,  take  risks  and  really 
tempt  Providence.  An  army  would  not  be  much 
account  without  such  men,  and  the  Thirty -seventh  had 
plenty  of  them.  So  they  crept  out  to  the  front,  moved 
on  right  up  to  the  strong  works  of  the  rebels,  crawled  on 
top  of  them,  over  on  the  other  side.  Oh,  how  fiose 
brave  fellows  did  delight  in  that  adventure!  They 


Arthur  McClain.  Co.  K. 
Emerson.' la. 


INDIANA    VOLTNTKKK    INFANTRY. 


117 


were  standing  then  just  where  their  adversaries  stood 
two  hours  before.  They  came  back  to  their  comrades 
who  were  digging-  in  the  hard  ground,  and  told  them  to 
lie  down  and  go  to  sleep,  for  they  had  visited  the  enemy's 
camp,  climbed  over  his  works,  and  no  enemy  was  there. 
Their  report  was  believed ;  the  air  was  cool  and  refresh 
ing;  the  moon  cast  a  soft  light  over  the  surroundings, 
and  the  tired  soldiers,  who  in  God's  mercy  had  been 
spared  from  the  bursting  of  the  first  shell  at  Tunnel  hill 
on  the  7th  of  May,  and  had  been  under  fire  every  day 

from  that  until  the  mid 
night  hour  of  July  21st. 
laid  down  on  the  hard 
stony  ground  and  slept  as 
soundly  as  if  they  had  been 
on  their  soft  beds  at  home, 
The  Regiment  on  that 
day  lost  three  wounded, 
one  in  Co.  C  and  two  in 
Co.  B,  and  one  killed — 
Sergeant  Major  Marion 
Elston,  of  Co.  K.  The 
morning  of  the  22d  broke 
in  clear  and  bright,  and 
promised  to  be  another 
hot  day.  After  breakfast 
we  fell  into  line  with 
cheerful  hearts,  for  the  camp  reports  flew  thick  and  fast 
that  the  way  to  Atlanta,  the  long-sought  and  dearly- 
bought  city,  was  clear. 


J.  B.  Ward  (Tip).  Co.  A. 
Kokomo.  Ind. 


CHAPTER  FOURTEEN 


The  Siege  of  Atlanta. 

(ien.  Johnson,  our  division  commander,  was  in 
credulous  and  kept  his  command  in  good  shape,  while 
Gen.  Hooker  said  he 
would  march  his  corps 
into  the  city  for  dinner. 
We  met  sickly-looking 
refugees  as  we  went  for 
ward  who  said  the  city 
was  evacuated. 

Still  we  moved  cau 
tiously  to  the  right  a 
short  distance  to  a  road 
leading  into  the  city.  On 
this  road  we  marched  by 
fours,  arms  at  will.  Ap 
pearances  soon  changed, 
and  we  moved  more  cau 
tiously,  and  finally  halted- 
About  8  o'clock  we  formed  our  line  of  battle  facing-  to 
the  front.  There  were  no  infantry  or  artillery  firing, 
yet  things  looked  suspicious  to  the  old  soldier,  who  had 
seen  just  such  maneuvers  before.  We  moved  on  cau 
tiously  during  this  oppressive  calm,  and  soon  a  solid 
shot  came  screaming  through  our  ranks.  The  enemy 
was  strongly  intrenched  within  three  miles  of  the  city, 
and  we  took  position  to  the  right  of  the  railroad,  and 


E.  R.  Childa.  Co.  C. 
Spokane.  Wash. 


INDIANA    VOLTNTEEK   INFANTRY.  119 

Co.  F  went  on  picket,  supporting-  the  skirmish  line,  and 
had  a  good  time  eating  blackberries  and  muscadine 
grapes.  Heavy  righting  was  heard  on  the  left  during  al 
the  afternoon. 

Hardee  and  Cheatham  had  attacked  McPherson, 
who  was  killed  that  day.  Once  or  twice  the  battle 
swept  over  toward  our  line,  but  never  g-ot  to  us.  The 
Thirty-seventh  intrenched  itself  in  strong  earth-works. 
Co.  F  went  on  the  picket  at  night,  and  one  of  our  bat 
teries  threw  fuse  shells  over  them  into  the  enemy's  lines. 

They,  Co.  F,  would  have 
enjoyed  the  sight  more  if 
the  shells  had  gone  far 
ther  above  them.  The 
forenoon  of  the  23d  wit 
nessed  heavy  skirmishing, 
and  some  artillery  firing. 
A  shell  of  the  enemy 
struck  our  works  in  front 
of  Co.  H.  The  Eleventh 
Indiana  battery  shelled 
Atlanta  in  the  afternoon. 
A  good  view  of  the  city 
could  be  had  from  the 
James  Harper.  Co.  A.  position  of  the  Eleventh, 

Sharpsville.  Ind. 

and    its   firing   was    very 

destructive  to  that  portion  of  the  city  in  the  neighbor 
hood  of  the  round  house. 

On  that  day  the  siege  of  Atlanta  began.  The 
enemy  was  strongly  intrenched.  A  direct  assault  on  his 
works  would  have  been  madness.  On  the  afternoon  of 
the  24th  we  were  informed  that  at  a  signal  at  9  o'clock 
that  night  the  pickets  were  to  fire,  ihe  artillery  was  to 
open  up  along  the  whole  line,  bugles  were  to  be  blcwii, 
and  the  army  in  the  trenches  were  to  shout  as  if  starting 


120  HISTORY   OF  THK  TM  IHT  Y-SK  V  KNTI I 

on  a  charge.  At  the  appointed  time  the  signal,  sending 
up  sky  rockets,  was  given,  and  the  program  carried  out, 
and  pandemonium  reigned.  The  enemy  responded 
briskly,  but  no  harm  was  done.  I  never  heard  what  the 
object  was,  and  suppose  it  was  just  to  fool  them.  The 
Eleventh  Indiana  battery  fired  a  shot  into  the  city  every 
live  minutes  during  that  whole  night.  The  25th  and 
26th  were  passed  in  skirmishing  and  artillery  practice. 
The  army  of  the  Tennessee  passed  behind  us  to  our 
right  on  the  27th.  The  army  was  beinu:  moved  to  the 
right  and  was  threatening 
the  Macon  railroad.  We 

saw  many   old  friends  in  *..•• 

the  Eighty-third  Indiana,  ^P  1        V" 

and     some     other     liegi- 
ments.      On  the  morning 
of   the    28th    the    wagon 
train  of  the  army   of  the 
Tennessee  was  still  pass 
ing  to    the  right.     About 
noon    that   day    our    Bri 
gade    moved    rapidly    to 
the  right  to  support  How 
ard's    army,    which    had  M  H.  Day  Co.  c. 
been    suddenly    attacked  Hayden.  ind. 
by  Lee  and  Stewart's  corps  of  Hood's    army.     This  was 
the  battle  of  Ezra  Church,    and  the    last  in   defense    of 
Atlanta.       It   ended   as   did    the   two   preceding   pitiful 
attempts  to  save  the  city.     Night  settled  down  over  his 
defeated   army,  and    Hood   fell    back  into   his  intrench- 
mentsto  await  the  end  which  he  must  have  known  was 
not  in  the  distant  future. 

In  moving  to  the  support  of  Howard  we  marched 
much  of  the  way  in  the  rear  of  our  troops,  and  in  plain 
view  of  the  enemy's  batteries,  shots  from  which  consid- 


•  •-«  -Tgss;-. 


CAPTAIN  j.  B.  REEVE, 
Rushville,  Ind. 


INDIANA    VOLT  \TKKK    INFANTRY. 

erably  accelerated  our  movements  as  we  marched 
rapidly  to  the  sound  of  cannon  and  musketry  to  the 
right.  We  moved  into  position  on  the  right  of  the 
Sixteenth  army  corps.  At  dark  we  began  to  build 
breast-works,  and  continued  rather  reluctantly  till  mid 
night,  when  \ve  laid  down  to  sleep;  but  the  night  being- 
cold  and  our  blankets  back  in  our  tents,  we  passed  the 
night  uncomfortably  on  the  ground,  Avet  from  the  recent 
rain.  Our  Brigade  was  relieved  on  the  morning  of  the 
the  29th  by  troops  from  Davis'  division,  and  we  returned 
to  our  camp. 

Hood  had  failed  to  accomplish  anything  for  his 
cause,  and  his  rashness  had  lost  him  many  men,  and  the 
respect  of  his  soldiers.  This  is  clear  from  a  conversation 
that  took  place  between  the  pickets  one  day  after  one  of 
the  severe  battles.  One  of  our  pickets  called  out,  "Hello. 
Johnny,  how  many  men  have  you  got  over  there?"  To 
which  the  Confederate  answered,  "Oh,  about  enough 
for  another  killing/1  Early  on  the  morning  of  the  80th 
the  enemy  opened  upon  us  with  all  their  artillery  it 
seemed.  The  skirmishers  also  were  active,  and  all  con 
tinued  throughout  the  night.  Who  that  was  there  can 
ever  forget  that  aAvful  and  long  continued  roar,  of  times 
shaking  the  solid  earth?  What  it  was  intended  to  ac 
complish  I  never  knew. 

The  31st  was  nice  and  quiet  till  in  the  afternoon, 
when  skirmishing  was  begun  again,  and  the  rain  com 
menced  falling.  We  had  had  a  nice  time  for  soldiers 
since  the  26th.  There  was  almost  constant  cannonading, 
but  that  was  directed  by  batteries  at  and  against  bat 
teries,  only  an  occasional  shot  or  shell  shrieking  over  us, 
rarely  striking  our  works.  The  band  of  the  Seventy- 
ninth  Pennsylvania  was  quartered  near  us,  and  to  the 
sound  of  musketry  and  cannon,  and  passing  and  ex 
ploding  shells,  they  sent  forth  on  the  cool,  calm  night 


122  IIISTOKY   OK   THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

air  sweet  strains  of  music  to  cheer  and  comfort  friend 
and  foe  alike  The  siege  of  Atlanta  began  at  the  close 
of  the  battle  of  July  22d.  Hood  fell  back  into  his  in- 
trenchments  after  the  battle  of  K/ra  Church,  and 
remained  there  till  Sherman's  Hank  movement  forced 
him  to  save  his  army  from  destruction. 

Aug.  1st  found  us  still  in  camp  in  rear  of  our 
division  battle  line,  and  on  that  day  George  H.  Pun- 
tenney  was  appointed  Sergeant  Major.  That  day  may 
be  remembered  from  the  fact  that  we  drew  the  first 

ration  of  whisky  we  had  had 
since  the  21st  of  June,  while 
in  front  of  Kennesa  w  mountain. 
Not  very  many  of  the  men  in 
the  Thirty-seventh  Indiana 
cared  much  for  whisky,  and 
that  may  be  the  reason  so  little 
whisky  was  given  it.  Of 
course  the  usual  roar  of  ar 
tillery  and  rattle  of  musketry 
was  kept  up.  The  absnnce  of 
these  would  attract  more  at- 
jaines  w.  Scott.  Co.  B.  teiition  then  than  their  pres 
ence.  The  Twenty-third  corps, 

Scholield's,  had  passed  to  the  right  of  the  army  on  the 
23d.  This  change  made  the  army  of  the  Cumberland 
the  left,  Howard's  the  center  and  Schofield's  the  right. 
This  move  threatened  to  cut  off  the  last  line  of  supply  of 
the  Confederate  army — the  Macon  railroad. 

Schorield  and  Palmer,  with  the  Fourteenth  corps, 
were  ordered  to  strike  that  railroad  and  destroy  it.  On 
the  2d  of  August  our  Regiment  was  appointed  to  the 
duty  of  train  guard,  and  about  3  o'clock  that  evening 
we  took  up  our  march  as  train  guard  of  the  corps  wagon 
train  for  Marietta,  which  point  we  reached  a  little  after 


INDIANA  YOLTXTKKK  INFANTRY. 


128 


dark,  and  went  into  camp.  We  remained  in  Marietta 
the  3d  and  took  a  look  at  the  town.  Marietta  was  then 
our  base  of  supplies,  for  when  Johnson  withdrew  across 
the  Chattahoochee  he  destroyed  the  railroad  bridge,  and 
until  it  was  rebuilt  supplies  must  be  taken  in  wagon 
trains.  Many  of  the  citizens  of  Marietta,  who  left  it 
while  the  many  days'  artillery  tiring  at  Kennesaw  was 
going  on,  had  returned  to  their  homes,  but  seemed  very 
unhappy,  and  who  can  blame  them  for  it?  In  the 
evening  our  train  was  parked  in  an  open  tield  about  a 
mile  east  of  town.  A  detail 
picketed  the  camp,  and  we 
enjoyed  a  refreshing  sleep  on 
the  ground,  and  listened  to  the 
booming  of  cannon  away  off  at 
our  front.  Early  on  the  morn 
ing  of  the  4th  we  started  for 
the  front,  crossed  the  river  on  a 
pontoon  bridge,  and  arrived  at 
our  destination  about  noon. 
That  afternoon  and  the  next 
day  we  cleared  off  our  camp 
ground  and  pitched  our  tents 
in  a  beautiful  grove  to  the 
right  of  the  railroad.  But  the  sound  of  rifles  and  cannon 
assured  us  that  the  war  was  still  going  on.  The  7th  was 
a  quiet  day  with  us,  but  the  old  Fourteenth  corps  on  our 
right  was  fiercely  engaged,  attacking  and  carrying  the 
rifle  pits  in  its  front  and  losing  in  killed  and  wounded 
500  men.  On  the  morning  of  the  8th  Ave  started  with  a 
corps  train  for  Marietta,  and  arrived  there  at  12  o'clock. 
The  remainder  of  the  day  we  spent  much  as  we 
pleased,  some  looking  at  the  town  and  the  soldiers  on 
guard  there.  Many  visited  the  sanitary  and  Christian 
commission.  The  next  morning  we  started  back  with 


Lewis  L.  Campbell.  Co.  A. 
Peoria.  111. 


124  HISTORY   OF  THE  Til  I  RT  Y-SK  V.KNT1I 

the  wagon  train,  and  saw  some  large  cannon  going  to 
ward  Atlanta.  It  is  said  that  Sherman  said:  "T  think 
those  guns  will  make  Atlanta  of  less  value  to  them  as  a 
machine  shop  and  depot  of  supplies."  It  soon  com 
menced  raining  that  morning,  rained  hard,  and 
the  roads  became  muddy  and  travel  difficult.  It 
was  afternoon  when  we  arrived  in  camp  very  tired. 
There  was  heavy  cannonading  on  both  flanks  of  the 
army  till  late  at  night,  and  the  rain  poured  down  most 
of  the  day  and  night  and  most  of  the  next  day.  On  the 
12th  we  were  ordered  to  march  to  Marietta,  and  after 
going  about  half  a  mile,  returned  to  camp. 

There  was  hard  fighting  on  our  front  and  right  that 
day,  but  nothing  was  gained  by  our  army.  The  bridge 
over  the  Chattahoochee  had  been  completed,  and  a  train 
load  of  supplies  arrived  on  the  14th — the  first  in  a  long 
time,  and  we  went  and  unloaded  it.  The  opposing 
armies  in  the  trenches  were  fighting  as  if  they  always 
intended  to  light.  The  Regiment  unloaded  another 
train  on  the  Kith.  On  the  17th  the  Regiment  guarded  a 
train  to  Marietta,  and  returned  with  it  the  next  day, 
marching  to  the  sound  of  distant  cannon  which  sounded 
more  fierce  than  common.  Nothing  of  importance 
occurred  till  the  20th.  when  it  became  evident  that  a 
decisive  movement  was  to  be  made  in  the  immediate 
future. 


CHAPTER  FIFTEEN 

A  Great  Flank  Movement  That  Caused  the  Fall  of  At 
lanta.    Jonesboro  the  Objective  Point. 

On  the  25th  of  August,  I  think,  the  army  began  a 
Hank  movement  on  Jonesboro,  which  was  south  of  At 
lanta  some  twenty  miles.  First  the  army  was  moved 
some  distance  to  the  rear,  and  then  by  the  rig- lit  flank  to 
the  west  and  south  of  the  city.  The  Twentieth  corps 
fell  back  to  the  north  side  of  the  Chattahoochee 
river  and  fortified.  On  the  20th  an  order  was  received 
from  the  war  department  requiring  the  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  to  continue  in  the  service  until  the  28th  day 
of  October,  the  date  of  our  mustering  at  West  Point. 
Ky.,  instead  of  the  18th  day  of  September,  the  day  on 
which  we  were  sworn  in  at  Lawrenceburg.  The  men 
had  discussed  that  question  many  times  in  the  last  three 
years,  but  this  was  the  first  ruling  on  the  question,  and 
it  decided  it  against  us. 

This  added  forty  days  to  our  three  years'  service,  but 
we  had  been  soldiers  long  enough  to  know  it  did  no 
good  to  grumble.  ( )n  the  25th  of  August  we  received 
marching  orders.  The  Regiment  moved  with  the  corps 
train  about  four  miles  to  the  right,  and  camped  for  the 
night.  The  day  was  hot.  but  there  was  no  fighting  in 
our  front.  The  army  was  then  making  a  great  flank 
movement  on  Jonesboro.  Slocum  had  been  placed  per 
manently  in  command  of  the  Twentieth  corps,  and  occu 
pied  the  intrenchments  at  the  Chattahoochee  river.  All 


12(>  HISTORY   OK  TIIK  TIIIRTY-SKVKNTII 

the  sick,  extra  supplies,  wagons,  etc.,  were  in  his  care. 
On  the  26th  the  train  attended  by  the  Thirty -seventh, 
moved  farther  to  the  .right.  We  moved  on  all  night, 
making  slow  progress.  A  thunder-storm  came  up  about 
.'}  o'clock  a.  in.  It  was  so  dark  that  we  could  see 
nothing  only  the  flashes  of  lightning.  On  the  morning 
of  the  27th  we  stopped  just  long  enough  to  eat  a  hurried 
breakfast,  and  then  moved  on.  About  noon  rebel  cav 
alry  threw  shells  into  our  train,  creating  some  little 
alarm,  but  doing  no  harm.  The  cavalry  were  soon 
^^^^  driven  out  of  sight,  and 

Jf-     ^^  we     marched     forward.        We 

J&.  went  into  camp  in  the  evening 

aff^K^W^  '"  ''"  r'-'lt  "'  the  road,  and 

near  the  park  of  our  corps 
train.  On  the  28th  we  marched 

A  on  to  the  right  and  front.     Co. 

.^1$''  1^^^     "^"   was  detailed  to  cut  out  H 

^*JJR  Bh    road  through  the  woods  for  the 

I  train.     We  waited  till  the  four 

corps  trains  moved  out  of  our 

way.      On   the     28th    the     de- 

T.  A.  Jennings.  Co.  F.         struction    of    the     West    Point 
Moore's  mn.  i nd.  railroad  was  begun  and   com 

pleted.  Many  of  the  iron  rails  were  heated  and  bent  and 
twisted  till  it  would  be  impossible  to  use  them  again. 
Some  of  the  cuts  were  filled  with  a  layer  of  dirt  and 
then  a  layer  of  brush,  and  it  looked  like  it  would  be 
difficult  indeed  to  clean  out  this  tilling.  Some  rebel 
prisoners  with  us  said  we  would  be  glad  to  leave  there 
soon,  as  Hood  would  be  after  us;  but  we  told  them  there 
was  no  danger,  and  on  we  marched,  and  the  old  flag 
still  moved  forward. 

Hood  said    the  fate   of  the   city  depended    on  their 
ability  to  defeat  Sherman  in  this  the  last  act  in  the  great 


INDIANA    VOU'XTKKK    INKANTKY. 


drama.  Scene  after  scene  from  May  7th  to  the  present 
hour  had  been  presented  to  an  anxious  country,  and 
they  waited  with  bated  breath  for  the  curtain  to  rise  on 
the  last  closing  act  of  the  grandest  campaign  in  history. 
With  Sherman  it  was  no  problem.  His  106,000  effectives 
(using-  Hood's  figures  and  words),  inured  to  victory, 
against  the  45,000,  who  from  Dalton  to  Atlanta  had  con 
tinually  turned  their  backs  to  the  foe,  but  recites  the  oft 
told  story,  which  in  the  end  is  but  "hoping  against 
hope."  We  remained  here  during  the  day.  Our  train 
was  parked  in  a  field  and  about 
noon  our  Regiment  was  or 
dered  to  reconnoiter  in  search 
of  cavalry  which  were  re 
ported  near  us. 

We  went  to  the  front  a 
mile  or  so  and  tinding  no 
enemy,  returned  and  remained 
till  morning.  We  moved  some 
distance  the  30th,  and  went 
into  camp  at  night.  We  made 
our  beds,  put  down  our 
blankets  and  expected  to  get  a 
good  night's  sleep.  Soon  we 
were  aroused  and  ordered  to 
pack  up  and  "fall  in."  In  the  whole  category  of  words 
there  are  none  that  are  so  full  of  meaning  to  soldiers  as 
those  two  little  words,  "fall  in."  He  hears  them  in  his 
sleep  and  day  dreams.  They  always  convey  to  the 
mind  some  anxiety  or  fear.  Yet  the  old  Thirty -seventh 
never  in  all  her  three  years  failed  to  respond  promptly 
when  that  command  was  given  it.  About  noon  of  the 
:>Ist  our  train  preceded  the  Regiment.  Owing  to  the 
bad  condition  of  the  roads,  we  had  orders  to  repair  it 
from  place  to  place  as  it  might  need  it.  During  our 


h  Yaiulolah.  ('<>.  !•'. 
Kahoka.  Mo. 


128  HISTORY   OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

march  that  day  we  passed  our  corps  headquarters.  The 
sound  of  cannon  on  our  right  that  afternoon  told  of 
Hood's  last  stand  at  Atlanta.  Despite  the  fact  that 
Sherman  was  moving  with  five  corps  against  his  only 
line  of  communication,  and  with  crushing  weight  writ 
ing  the  last  chapter  of  the  history  of  the  Atlanta  cam 
paign,  it  seems  that  it  never  occurred  to  him  to  give  up 
the  city  without  a  struggle  and  the  shedding  of  blood. 
It  is  creditable  to  the  Union  soldiers  that  everywhere 
and  on  every  occasion  from  Tunnel  hill  to  Love  Joys 
Station  they  met  a  foe  worthy  of  their  steel  and  honored 
progenitors.  Those  Southern  soldiers  did  tight. 

It  seems  that  this  flank  movement  had  deceived 
Gen.  Hood.  He  thought  that  Sherman  had  fallen  back 
toward  his  base  of  supplies.  He  telegraphed  that  state 
ment  to  the  prominent  men  of  the  South,  and  they  came 
to  Atlanta  to  rejoice  with  him.  Atlanta  was  in  a  blaze 
of  glory.  Young  men  and  maidens  danced,  and  old 
men  and  matrons  rejoiced.  It  was  indeed  "On  with  the 
dance,  let  joy  be  unconfined."  But  a  horseman  arrives 
and  tells  them  that  Sherman's  mighty  army  is  marching 
around  apparently  as  resistless  as  fate  to  Jonesboro,  and 
will  soon  cut  off  all  of  Hood's  communications  with 
the  South.  Then  light  and  joy  faded  from  the  faces  of 
pure  and  lovely  women  and  brave  men,  and  the  sound 
of  clashing  swords  and  coarse  commands  took  the  place 
of  the  violin  and  flute.  Two  corps  were  started  to  meet 
Sherman's  five  corps.  They  delayed  them  a  little  on 
the  31st,  but  only  for  a  short  time.  All  our  force  was 
directed  to  Jonesboro,  and  about  4  o'clock  on  the  even 
ing  of  the  1st  of  September,  our  good,  old  Fourteenth 
corps,  under  Gen.  Davis,  charged  the  enemy  and  cut 
him  in  twain,  suffering  severely  itself  and  literally 
routing  the  enemy,  killing  and  wounding  great  num 
bers  of  them.  That  night  Hood  blew  up  his  magazines 


INDIANA    VOLl'NTKKIl    INFANTRY.  129 

and  abandoned  Atlanta,  and  the  campaign  was  ended. 
Two  or  three  days  after  the  battle  1,  as  Sergeant  Major 
of  the  Thirty-seventh,  was  ordered  to  take  a  lot  of 
skulkers  (those  men  of  the  army  who  had  without  per 
mission  dropped  out  of  ranks  as  their  comrades  were 
going  into  the  battle  and  staid  in  the  rear  till  the  battle 
was  over  and  had  been  put  under  guard  after  the  battle), 
and  bury  the  dead  of  the  enemy  in  our  front. 

They,  the  skulkers,  were  the  toughest  human  beings 
1  ever  had  anything  to  do  with.  In  a  pretty  oak  woods 
were  about  forty  dead  Confederates.  There  were  sinks 
in  the  ground  there  three  or  four  feet  deep  and  twice 
that  many  feet  long  and  wide.  The  bodies  of  these 
dead  were  too  much  decayed  to  be  handled  with  the 
hands,  and  these  skulkers  cut  forked  oak  limbs  so  as  to 
make  a  hook  of  one  fork  and  a  hand  holt  of  the  other. 
They  would  put  the  hook  under  the  chin  of  the  dead 
and  drag  the  body  into  the  pit  or  sink  and  scrape  the 
earth  on  them.  These  skulkers  cared  no  more  for 
these  dead  bodies  than  they  would  have  cared  for 
dead  hogs. 

As  above  stated,  the  campaign  was  over,  but  who 
will  ever  be  able  to  tell  the  exact  number  of  brave  men 
who  were  killed  while  fighting  from  Tunnel  hill  to 
Jonesboro?  On  the  7th  day  of  May,  124  days  before 
the  capture  of  Atlanta,  bullets  commenced  flying  past 
our  ears,  and  nearly  every  single  day  of  these  124  the 
Thirty-seventh  Regiment  heard  the  whiz/ing  and 
shrieking  of  the  enemy's  shot  and  shell.  During  all 
these  four  months  of  continuous  and  hard  lighting,  no 
decisive  battle  had  been  fought.  The  Confederate  army 
had  been  driven  about  150  miles,  but  it  was  not  de 
feated  till  after  it  made  its  stand  at  Jonesboro.  There 
it  was  routed.  That  was  a  gallant  army  commanded 
bv  able  and  brave  generals.  If  the  Confederate  armv 


130  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVKXTII 

under  Johnson  and  Hood  in  this  campaign  gave  to 
history  an  unparalleled  lesson  of  heroic  resistance  to 
superior  numbers,  that  of  Sherman's  will  live  on  and 
above  it  as  an  example  of  human  endurance,  perse 
verance,  courage  and  patriotism.  Thirty-seventh  In 
diana  men  shed  their  blood  at  Rocky  Face  ridge,  swung 
around  with  Sherman's  army  through  Snake  Creek  Gap, 
fought  in  the  three  days'  fight  at  Resaca,  crossed  Osta- 
naula  river,  skirmished  through  Calhoun,  Adairsville 
and  beyond  Etawah  river,  developed  the  enemy  in  his 

ambushed  position  near  Dallas, 
where  from  May  25th  to  June 
5th,  the  battles  of  New  Hope 
Church,  Pickett's  mill  or  Pump- 
kinvine  creek  were  fought, 
losing  many  men  in  killed  and 
wounded,  and  never  once 
failed  to  display  the  highest 
degree  of  bravery  and  patriot- 
ism.  During  all  these  long  and 
trying1  days  our  grand  old 
Regiment  was  in  one  contin- 
D.  s.  Shafer.  Co.  G.  uous  blaze  of  musketry  and 
Kokomo.  ind.  artillery  fire  amid  the  tangled 

undergrowth  of  small  timber,  down  in  deep  and  unex 
plored  ravines,  and  up  among  the  wild  Altoona  hills. 
On  it  went  by  the  left  flank  through  the  nineteen  days' 
rain  in  June ;  nothing  daunted,  brooking  no  defeat,  it 
finally  brought  up  under  the  enemy's  guns  at  Kennesaw 
mountain,  where  it  laid  from  June  21st  to  July  3d  in  the 
trenches  exposed  to  the  scorching  rays  of  the  sun,  under 
a  fierce  and  persistent  artillery  fire  of  the  enemy. 

During  the  Atlanta  campaign  the  army  of  the  Cum 
berland  alone  lost  21,534  men  in  killed,  wounded  and 
captured.  We  spent  a  few  days  at  Jonesboro,  and  saw 


[NIHANA   VOLUNTEER   INFANTRY. 


131 


the  Confederate  wounded  brought  into  town  in  our 
army  wagons.  One  thousand  wounded  Confederates 
must  have  been  hauled  back  in  those  wagons.  I  got  up 
on  the  wheels  of  one  wagon  that  had  ten  wounded  men 
in  it.  All  were  pale  and  weak.  Some  of  them  were 
from  Texas,  others  from  other  States.  Xot  one  of  them 
(though  some  were  quite  young  men),  uttered  a  moan  or 
complaint.  As  they  were  unloaded  from  the  wagon  (all 
had  to  be  lifted  out  of  it),  not  one  of  them  spoke  of 
being  hurt.  Some  of  them  set  their  jaws  together  a 
little  tighter,  but  that  was  all. 
About  the  8th  of  September  we 
started  back  to  Atlanta  and 
went  into  camp  near  the  south 
corporation  line,  now  Peach 
Tree  street,  passing  strong  forti 
fications  near  the  city.  The 
city  was  badly  torn  with  shot 
and  shell  from  our  batteries. 

Many  of  our  men  visited  a 
fort  near  the  city  where  five 
large  sixty-four  pounds  cannon 
had  been  spiked  when  aban 
doned  by  the  enemy.  They 
were  old  United  States  pieces  which  had  been  stolen  from 
our  government  by  Floyd.  Nothing  of  great  importance 
happened  the  10th,  llth,  12th  and  13th,  except  that  Gen. 
Sherman  issued  an  order  requiring  citizens  of  Atlanta  to 
go  either  Xorth  or  South.  During  these  days  citizens — 
men,  women  and  children,  some  of  the  ladies  elegantly 
dressed  and  evidently  unaccustomed  to  hardships,  passed 
our  camp  on  their  way  South.  They  said  nothing  to  us 
and  we  said  nothing  to  them.  The  city  was  literally 
torn  to  pieces ;  more  than  half  the  houses  had  been 
struck  by  one  or  more  shots  or  shells.  Everv  door  vard 


W.  A.  Bodine.  Co.  I. 
Morristown.  Ind. 


1)2  HISTORY    OF  TIIK  THIKTY-SKVKNTH 

had  an  artificial  cave  in  it,  into  which  the  family  went 
when  the  artillery  was  playing  on  the  city.  Some  of  us 
went  to  church  one  day,  and  it  had  been  punctured 
three  or  four  times  by  cannon  balls. 

As  the  Regiment  had  been  mustered  into  the  service 
on  the  18th  of  September,  1861,  it  was  ordered  on  that 
day  in  1864  to  report  at  Indianapolis  as  early  as  possible. 
On  the  evening  of  the  18th  we  left  the  camp,  bidding 
good-bye  to  the  good,  brave  boys  of  Companies  A,  B,  C, 
D,  I  and  K,  who  had  shared  with  us  in  the  toils,  priva 
tions  and  dangers  of  many  battles  in  which  we  had  been 
engaged.  We  were  going  to  home  and  friends  and  civil 
life,  they  to  the  honor  and  glory  awaiting  them  in  their 
march  to,  and  camp  by  the  sea. 

Our  train,  a  freight,  composed  of  stock  cars  and 
platform  cars,  got  off  the  19th  about  10  o'clock  a.  in.,  but 
we  went  slowly.  The  men  w^ere  on  top  of  the  cars,  in 
them  and  on  the  platform  cars.  Most  of  the  distance  to 
Chattanooga  was  made  after  night,  and  those  on  the 
platform  cars  and  on  top  of  the  cars,  in  order  to  keep 
from  falling  off  the  cars  when  asleep,  had  to  tie  them 
selves  to  something  on  the  car.  Not  much  sleeping  was 
done,  but  the  train  thundered  along  and  got  into  Chatta 
nooga  about  9  o'clock  of  the  morning  of  the  20th.  Here 
we  met  several  of  the  Regiment  who  were  awaiting  our 
arrival.  At  about  11  o'clock  a.  m.  we  bid  farewell  to 
Chattanooga,  the  scenes  of  many  hardships  and  trials, 
and  after  a  tiresome  ride  over  a  devastated  country, 
arrived  at  Nashville.  We  staid  there  one  night  and 
part  of  two  days,  when  we  left  and  came  on  to  Louisville. 

Col.  Ward  without  delay  applied  for  transportation 
to  Indianapolis,  and  got  an  order  for  it  over  the  road  to 
Jeffersonville.  As  the  Regiment  marched  through  Louis 
ville  to  the  river,  it  marched  two  abreast  by  platoons  at 
times  and  by  Companies  at  times.  All  did  their  level 


INDIANA    YOLUNTKKK   INFAXTKY.  133 

best  (and  but  few  Regiments  could  march  or  drill  with 
the  Thirty-seventh),  and  as  the  men  passed  on  with  their 
sunburnt  hands  and  faces,  worn  garments,  military  step 
and  bright  guns  at  a  "right  shoulder  shift"  they  at 
tracted  much  attention.  All  knew  we  had  served  our 
full  three  years,  and  one  enthusiastic  bystander  re 
marked:  -That  old  Regiment  could  make  a  h — 1  of  a 
racket  yet."  We  crossed  ihe  river  into  Jefferson ville 
that  evening.  Our  Colonel  had  some  difficulty  in  secur 
ing  a  train  for  us,  but  finally  succeeded  after  threaten 
ing  to  press  one  into  the  service. 

We  left  on  the  22d  on  an  old,  rickety  train  with  a 
wheezy  engine  that  made  slow  time  indeed.  The  old 
engine  gave  out  about  the  middle  of  the  afternoon  and 
came  to  a  dead  stand  still  near  Vienna.  We  laid  there 
till  late  at  night  waiting  for  another  engine.  It  came  at 
last,  and  we  went  on  slowly,  arriving  at  Indianapolis 
about  2  o'clock  p.  m.  It  was  the  Sabbath,  and  we 
marched  into  Camp  Morton,  got  a  good  dinner  and  pre 
pared  to  rest.  We  had  not  been  many  days  in  carnp 
till  Gov.  Morton  sent  word  to  the  Regiment  that  there 
was  likely  to  be  trouble  with  the  Knights  of  the  Golden 
Circle  in  Sullivan  county,  and  he  wished  a  trained  and 
tried  Regiment  to  deal  with  them  if  trouble  came.  He 
requested  the  Regiment  to  consent  to  remain  in  the 
service  for  a  time,  or  until  the  danger  was  past. 

To  this  request  the  men  cheerfully  consented,  and 
remained  till  Oct.  27th,  in  the  meantime  receiving  a  fur 
lough  home  to  see  our  friends  and  vote  at  the  election. 
All  returned  and  were  paid  off  and  mustered  out  on  the 
27th  of  October,  and  returned  to  their  homes  and  the 
trials  and  pleasures  of  civil  life. 

Our  work  as  soldiers  was  done,  and  I  think  well 
done.  The  joys  and  sorrows  of  those  three  terrible 
years  were  in  the  past,  but  not  forgotten,  nor  never  can 


134 


HISTORY  OF  TH.K  THIRTY-SEVENTH 


be  by  any  of  us  while  life  lasts.  The  memories  of  this 
long  companionship  will  be  like  a  day  dream  growing 
brighter  and  more  precious,  as  the  evening  of  life  comes 
on  with  the  infirmities  of  age. 

As  I  look  back  through  the  thirty-four  years  past  at 
the  thousand  strong,  young  men  and  patriots  of  which 
the  Thirty-seventh  Indiana  Regiment  was  composed — 
like  the  host  of  Israel  which  came  out  of  Egypt,  "not 
one  feeble  one  among  them,"  I  am  forced  to  conclude 
that  the  King  of  Xations  raised  them  up,  and  others  like 

them,  for  the  express  purpose 
of  preserving  this  government, 
with  its  institutions  to  bless  not 
only  the  people  of  this  nation, 
but  those  of  every  nation  on 
the  face  of  the  earth.  Com 
rades,  it  was  a  glorious  cause 
for  which  you  fought,  and 
glorious  were  your  achieve 
ments.  Xo  matter  how  diffi 
cult  or  dangerous  was  the  duty 
assigned  you,  you  did  it 
promptly  and  well. 

Thomas      A.     Shirk.     Co.     H.  r  J 

Waynesburgh.  ind.  Past  Search  the  history  of  the 
Commander  Post  134.  Sarde-  Regiment  from  the  time  you 
;r— rZ":™*  the  Ohio  river  into 
only  one  to  return.  TWO  Kentucky,  till  you,  three  years 
killed,  and  the  other  died  in  afterwards,  re-crossed  it  into 
Indiana  to  be  mustered  out, 

and  the  most  searching  critic  will  find  no  stain  on  it,  but 
will  find  it  always  equal  to  the  best  of  all  the  brave  and 
loyal  Regiments  sent  out  by  any  State  for  the  preserva 
tion  of  the  Union.  You  never  shirked  a  duty  or  dis 
obeyed  an  order.  I  have  no  way  of  arriving  at  the 
exact  loss  of  the  Regiment  from  death  and  wounds, 


INDIANA  VOLfXTEKK  INFANTRY. 


I  learn  from  Terrell's  reports,  which  do  not  give  the 
names  of  all  who  were  wounded  or  killed  in  battle,  that 
170  of  the  Regiment  either  died  or  were  killed  in  battle: 
also  that  185  were  disabled  by  disease  and  wounds. 

That  makes  in  all  3o;">  men — over  the  third  of  the 
Regiment.  But  the  number  is  much  larger  than  that. 
The  wounded  who  were  not  permanently  disabled  are 
not  mentioned  in  Terrell's  reports.  The  wounds  that 
our  Colonel,  W.  I).  Ward,  received,  are  not  mentioned, 
and  of  course  those  of  privates  would  not  be.  Many 
men  were  seriously  wounded 
more  than  once,  yet  no  men 
tion  is  made  of  it.  I  say  this 
to  show  that  not  half  the 
wounds  received  by  men  of 
the  Thirty-seventh  Regiment, 
or  any  other  Regiment,  are 
given  in  that  report.  It  is  safe 
to  say  that  more  than  half  the 
men  in  the  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  were  killed  or  seri 
ously  wounded.  Col.  Ward 
says:  "My  old  Company  'A' 
was  composed  of  strong,  young- 
men,  the  flower  of  Ripley 
county,  Indiana — 101  strong, 
service  expired  thirty-four  of  them  were  in  their  graves." 
Yet  Terrell's  report  only  names  twenty-four  as  having 
been  killed  in  battle,  or  died  of  disease.  But  after  all. 
if  our  Regiment  did  not  suffer  enough  it  was  because  it 
did  not  have  the  opportunity.  It  was  actively  engaged 
in  thirteen  hard  fought  battles,  including  Stone  river. 
Chickamauga,  Resaca,  Pumpkinvine  creek  and  twice  at 
Rocky  Face  ridge  and  Buzzard  Roost,  and  conducted 
itself  heroically  in  every  one  of  them. 


John  A.  Cowan.  Co.  K. 
Richland.  Ind. 

Before    their    time    of 


I3fi  HISTOKY   OK   THK   TH  I  HT  V-SK V  KNTH 

And  now,  comrades,  in  closing  permit  me  to  say 
that  I  know  that  you  have  comrades  who  could  in  writ 
ing  this  history  have  done  you  and  your  grand  old  Regi 
ment  more  nearly  justice  than  I  have  done,  but  I  have 
done  the  best  I  could.  I  am  greatly  indebted  to  our 
comrades,  Col.  W.  I).  Ward  and  Leroy  Roberts  for  the 
copious  and  elegantly  written  facts  which  they  furnished 
me.  In  conclusion  I  will  say  I  know  that  the  three 
score  and  ten  years  allotted  to  man  will  soon  be  reached 
by  most  of  you,  and  that  the  remaining  years  which  may 
be  given  you,  will,  by  reason  of  the  hardships  of  war,  the 
wounds  received  in  battle  and  the  increase  of  years  be 
years  of  "labor  and  sorrow.'' 

Yet,  if  the  dates  which  I  have  given  you  in  this 
attempted  history,  and  the  facts  which  T  have  so  tamely, 
and  sometimes  inelegantly  expressed,  shall  in  recalling 
to  your  minds  any  of  the  sad  or  happy  incidents  of  these 
three  long  years  of  your  youth,  valor  and  patriotism,  be 
a  source  of  any  pleasure  or  protit  to  you,  as  you  go  on  to 
join  your  comrades  who  have  answered  the  roll  call  on 
the  "other  shore,"  I  shall  be  abundantly  compensated 
for  all  the  time  and  labor  the  writing  of  this  unpreten 
tious  little  volume  has  cost  me. 

In  conclusion,  comrades,  let  us  now  and  in  the 
future,  as  in  the  day  when  our  Regimental  line  melted 
before  the  tiery  breath  of  battle,  take  a  look  at  our  flag, 
the  bonniest  flag  the  sunlight  of  heaven  ever  kissed,  and 
close  up  our  thinning  ranks  by  dressing  to  the  center  till 
the  last  old  patriot  of  the  Thirty-seventh  Indiana  has 
been  called  from  time  to  eternity. 


CAPTAIN  HEZEKIAH  SHOOK,  Co.  D, 
Versailles,  Ind. 


HISTORY  OF  CAPT.  SHORT. 


Ca.pt.  Charles  C.  Short,  Co.  A. 
L.awrenfeburg.  Ind. 

Capt.  Charles  C.  Short  enlisted  in  Co.  A,  Thirty- 
seventh  Indiana  Infantry,  Aug.  20th,  18(51,  and  went  into 
camp  at  Lawrenceburg,  Ind. ;  left  the  State  as  Commissary 
Sergeant ;  afterward  commissioned  Regimental  Quarter 
master.  The  26th  day  of  April,  1862,  he  was  com 
missioned  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment,  Co.  A.  The  22d  day  of  February,  1863,  he 
was  commissioned  First  Lieutenant  in  same  Regiment. 
The  9th  day  of  December,  1863,  he  was  commissioned 
Captain.  He  was  born  June  16th.  1834;  died  Sept. 
21st,  1881. 


AN  INCIDENT. 

"Hold  the    Fort   for   I   am  Coming"— A   Thirty-seventh 
Man  Did  It. 

The  occasion  which  gave  rise  to  that  once  famous 
hymn  is  believed  to  be  as  follows :  Lieut .  J.  II.  Connelly,  of 
Co.  I,  Thirty -seventh  Indiana,  whose  portrait  is  on  page 
87,  was  transferred  to  the  signal  service.  His  widow 
copies  and  sends  me  the  following  notes  written  by  her 
husband  while  on  duty  in  the  army:  "Hood  moved 
from  his  position  south  of  Atlanta,  and  placed  his  army 
between  Sherman's  army  and  their  supplies  at  Chatta 
nooga.  The  enemy  had  destroyed  the  Western  and 
Atlantic  railroad  as  far  as  Allatoona.  At  9  o'clock  a.  m., 
Oct.  5th,  1864,  Gen.  French's  division,  having  made  the 
destruction  of  the  railroad  complete  to  that  place,  at 
tacked  Allatoona,  and  after  a  furious  fight  of  five  hours, 
was  driven  away  severely  punished.  During  the  day 
of  the  right  we  had  as  visitors  to  Kennesaw  mountain, 
Gen.  Sherman  and  rive  other  general  officers  of  less  note." 
Lieut.  Connelly's  station  was  on  Kennesaw.  The  follow 
ing  is  the  message  which  is  supposed  to  have  given  rise 
to  the  song,  "Hold  the  fort,"  and  which  was  signaled  by 
Lieut.  Connelly  to  Allatoona  : 

"Oct.  5th,  '64.     From  headquarters. 

Tell  Allatoona  hold  on.  Gen.  Sherman  says  he  is 
working  hard  for  you.  W.  T.  SHKKMAN,  Maj.  Gen." 

From  this  was  put  in  verse  the  song,  "Hold  the  fort." 
Among  the  papers  of  her  deceased  husband,  Mrs.  Con- 


INDIANA   VOLUNTEER   INFANTRY.  139 

nelly  found  the  following  letter  from  Gen.  Sherman  to 
Secretary  of  War  Staunton.  The  following-  is  from  the 
copy  she  sends : 

He  said  "When  the  enemy  had  cut  our  lines  and 
actually  made  a  lodgement  on  our  railroad  about  Big- 
Shanty,  the  signal  officers  on  Vinning's  hill,  Kennesaw 
and  Allatoona,  sent  my  orders  to  Gen.  Corse  at  Rome, 
whereby  Gen.  Corse  was  enabled  to  reach  Allatoona 
just  in  time  to  defend  it.  Had  it  not  been  for  the 
service  of  this  corps  on  that  occasion,  I  am  satisfied  we 
should  have  lost  the  garrison  at  Allatoona,  and  a  most 
valuable  depository  of  provisions  there  which  were 
worth  to  me  and  the  country  more  than  the  aggregate 
expense  of  the  whole  signal  corps  for  one  year." 

James  H.  Connelly  was  brevetted  First  Lieutenant 
for  gallant  conduct  at  the  battle  of  Allatoona.  That 
was  signed  by  Andrew  Johnson. 


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146  HISTORY  OF  THK  TH  IRT  Y-SK  V  KNTII 

THIRTY-SEVENTH    REGIMENT    INFANTRY    STAFF    AND 

BAND. 

Sergeant  Major — 

Connelly,  James  H.,  promoted  to  Second  Lieutenant 
Co.  I. 

Commissary  Sergeant — 

Short,  Charles  C.,  promoted  to  Second  Lieutenant  Co.  A. 

Hospital  Stewart — 

Lupton,  George,  discharged  Dec.  28,  '61. 

Principal  Musicians — 

Gorsuch,  Joseph  B..  mustered  out  March  16.  '6*2 ;  Xo- 
wotney,  John  L,  mustered  out  May  3,  '62;  band 
mustered  out  early  in  '62;  Hunter,  Alfred  G. ;  Ellis, 
Edwin;  Lawless,  P.  J. ;  Watkins,  Green  S.;  Bennie, 
John;  Pullman,  William  W. ;  Price,  Joel  B.;  Brison, 
Hugh;  Mix,  S.  M. ;  Shellenberger,  William  I).; 
Hope,  John  S.;  Passel,  George  W. ;  Bardwell,  Mil- 
ner;  Evans,  James;  Glasgow,  W.  R. ;  Hamliii,  Omer; 
Huids,  Francis  M. ;  Jenning,  William  W. ;  Johnson, 
Benjamin  F. ;  Murphy,  James  S.;  Picket,  Ira  B.; 
Schofield,  Eden  C. ;  Soper,  Melville  11  ;  Stewart, 
W.  K. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  A. 

First  Sergeant — 

Sage,  John,  promoted  to  Second  Lieutenant. 
Sergeants — 

El  rod,  William  I).,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Kirk,  Thomas,  veteran,  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant. 

Firth,  Luke,  veteran. 

Brown,  John. 
Corporals — 

Grossman,  John,  died  of  wounds  received  in  action. 

Lane,  Henry,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Stockwell,  John,  veteran. 


INDIANA    VOLl'NTKKK    INFANTRY.  147 

Powell,  James  M. 

Smitha  A.  W. 

Pendergast,  William  P.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Louis,  William  H.,  died  of  wounds  received  in  action. 

Casteter,  Ira,  veteran. 
Musicians — 

Jemison,  Klias,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Campbell,  Lewis,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 
Wagoner — 

Titus,  John. 
Privates — 

Albright,  Joseph,  mustered  out  ( )ct.  27,  '04. 

Alfrey.  Henry,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Austin,  John,  died  Feb.  25,  '02. 

Austin,  Wesley,  died  at  Elixabethtown,  Ky..  Dec.  0,  '01. 

Bailey,  Wilson,  veteran. 

Bebee,  James,  killed  at  Stone  river. 

Benham,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Benham,  Shedrack,  died   at   Elizabethtown,  Ky.,  Jan. 
4,  '02. 

Bruner,  Oliver,  died  of  wounds  received  in  action. 

Buckhannan,  George. 

Buckhannan,  John. 

Caplinger,  Jacob  M.,  veteran. 

Cole,  William,  veteran. 

Copeland,  Smith  W. 

Craven,  Thomas. 

Craven,  Wesley,  veteran. 

Cur  ran,  James. 

Curran,  Newton,  veteran. 

Custer,    Jethro,    died     at    Bacon     creek.    Kentucky, 
Jan.  31,  '02. 

Dunlap,  Albert  G.,  killed  in  action. 

Durman,  James,  discharged  Jan.  20,  '03. 

Ent,  Asher,  died  at  Elizabethtown,  Ky.,  Dec.  10,  '01. 


148  HISTORY   OK  THE  Tl  1 1  KTY-S  K  V  KXT  1 1 

French,  Peter. 

French,  John. 

Gary,  Imlac  E.,  mustered  out  Oct.  "27,  '64. 

(iookins,  Harrison,  veteran,  died  at  Savannah,  Ga., 
Jan.  10,  "65. 

Grecian,  Isaac,  veteran  Co.  A. 

Hannars,  John,  veteran. 

Harmon,  David,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Harper,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Hasting,  James,  died  at  Klizabethtown,  Ky.,  De 
cember,  '61. 

Hasty,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Harvey,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Heller,  John,  killed  in  action. 

Herndon,  Benjamin,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Hess,  Theodore,  veteran. 

Hicks.  John  W.,  died  of  wounds  received  in  action. 

Hyatt,  Shedrack,  discharged  Dec.  12,  '61,  disability. 

Jackson,  Lemuel,  killed  in  action. 

Jackson,  Rufus. 

Johnson,  Erastus,  died  March  15,  '62. 

Kelly,  Charles  F.,  died  Feb.  20,  "62. 

Kelly,  Daniel,  killed  in  railroad  accident. 

Kelly,  Lafayette,  died  at  Grayville,  Ga.,  April  11,  '64. 

Kelly,  Silas. 

Kelly,  William,  veteran. 

Kirk,  John  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Las  well,  John. 

Las  well,  Thomas. 

Main,  Josephus, 

Ma  they,  Charles,  died  at  Chattanooga.  Tenn.,  Dec.  5.  '6;>. 

May,  Samuel  S.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

McCasky,  .John  H..  discharged  Dec.  5,  '62. 

McCasky,  William  F. 

McKitrick,     Ludlow.    died     of    wounds     received     in 


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action. 

Mom-net  John  15.;  discharged  March  12,  '63. 
Moreland,   Jesse     G..   died     of     wounds    received    in 

action. 
Morrow.   James,    died    at     Elizabethtown,    Ky.,    Dec. 

5,  -01. 

Myers.  James  C.,  veteran. 

Myers,  (ieorge  A.,  died  of  wounds  received  in  action. 
Xorthern.  James  II.,  discharged  Feb.  9.  '<>:•}. 
Osborn,  Joseph  C. 

Pa  pet,  Samuel,  died  at  Louisville.  Jan.  1;~>,  '62. 
Parduni,  Leander.  died  June  5.  '62. 
Parsons,    William,    transferred    to    signal    corps    Oct. 

22,  >6:-5. 

Payton.  John  C.,  veteran. 

Pendergast,  Hiram,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Ross.  William  L.,  killed  in  action. 
Shook.  Abraham,  discharged,  disability.  July  24.  '(12. 
Smith.  Orsam,  mustered  out  Oct.  27. ,'64. 
Spears,  Joseph  J.,  veteranized. 
Stage,   Theodore,   died    at    Elizabethtown,    Ky.,    Dec. 

18,  '61. 

Sutton,  Reuben,  veteran. 
Swing,  Jeremiah,  veteranized. 

Titus.  Harvey,  died  Oct.  21.  '62.  accidental  wounds. 
Vayhinger.   Kdwin.  died  at    Elizabethtown.   Ky.,   Dec. 

8,  '61. 

Waylan.  William  A.,  veteranized. 
Westover,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Williamson,  Stephen,  died  at  Murfreesboro,  Feb.  :-5,  '6:>. 
Wright,  George,  veteranized. 
Wright,  James. 
Young.  Ama/iah. 
ecru  its — 
Ward,  Jonathan  15..  mustered  out  Dec.  16,  '64. 


150  HISTORY  OF  THE  TIIIKTY-SKV.KXTH 

Craven,  John. 
Allen,  William. 
Delap,  Xathaniel. 
Mavity,  Samuel. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  B. 

First  Sergeant — 

Morffitt,  Charles  W.,  discharged  May  29, '02,  disability. 
Sergeants — 

Stoner,  Jacob  W.,  promoted  to  Second  Lieutenant. 

Colter,  James,  veteranized. 

Price,  John  S.,  discharged,  disability. 

Davis,  Marion,  veteranized. 
Corporals — 

Goudie,  J.  A.   H.,  discharged,  disability,  March  21,  '63. 

Davison,  John  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04-. 

Barnard,  James  C.,  veteranized. 

Winning,  William  F.,  veteranized. 

Ailes,  Fletcher  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Wiley,  Spencer,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64-. 

Graw,  George  C.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Brown,  James  E.,  transferred  V.  R.  C. 
Musicians — 

Barlow,  William  H.  H. 

Marquet,  Jacob,  veteranized. 
Wagoner — 

Sherman,  A.,  I.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 
Privates — 

Anderson,  Lucius  L.,  veteranized. 

Alford,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Bassett,  William  J.,  transferred  V.  R.  C. 

Bassett,  Charles    II.,   discharged,   loss   of   speech,  July 
15,  '02. 

Baker,  Joshua,  veteranized. 

'Barnard,  Oliver  W.,  veteranized. 


INDIANA  VOLfNTKKK  IXKAXTKY.  1  *>  1 

Bartlow,  James  H.,  veteranized. 

Bell,  Selby,  discharged  Aug.  24.  '63. 

Bell.  Andrew  M.,  veteranized. 

Bloom,  George,  veteranized. 

Bloom,  William  I\ 

Bowers,  Myer,  veteranized. 

Boweu,  Thomas  J.,  veteranized. 

Britton.  Alfred  I).,  discharged,  disability,  Jan.   14.  '03. 

Burrus,  George  K.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '04. 

Burns,  Matthew  B.,  died. 

Case,  Barion  L.,  transferred  Sig.  C.,  Oct.  22,  '63. 

Clark.  Henry  I).,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Cuchsondoffer,  John,  discharged  Nov.  26,  '62. 

Curtis,  Levi  S.,  discharged,  disability.  Feb.  4.  '(52. 

Davison,  Lewis  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Egbert,  Josiah,  died  Dec.  31,  '62.  of  wounds. 

Fisk,  William,  died  of  wounds. 

Forrow.  Martin  H..  veteranized. 

Foster,  Ellis  W..  veteranized. 

Freeman,  John  P. 

Gard,  Daniel  H.,  died  at  Nashville.  Tenn..  April  111.  '(52. 

Guyer,  John  H..  veteranized. 

George,  James  D.,  discharged,  disability.  July  2.  '(>;>. 

Graper.  William  F..  veteranized. 

Grob,  Michael,  veteranized. 

Green,  James  A.,  veteranized. 

Harvey,  William  W..  veteranized. 

Hern,  William  F. 

Higdon,  Eli  W.,  diischarged.  disability,  Nov  26,  '62. 

Hollingsworth.  Joseph,  veteranized. 

Hollingsworth,  Joel,  died  at  Eli/abethtown.  Ky..  Dec. 

17.  '(51. 

Hoft'man.  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '(54. 
Hoffman,  George,  died  at  Bear  ('reck  Dec.  :>0.  '61. 
Kempker.  William  L..  veteranized. 


J52  HISTOKY    ()K   Til  K  Til  I  KTY-SKV  KXTII 

Kelly,  Reuben,  died. 

Kruse,  Frederick,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04-. 
Lewis,  Nathan,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Lynn,  James  H.,  discharged,  disability,  Dec.  26,  '62. 
Maple,  John  M.,  discharged,  disability.  May  9,  '62. 
Magoon,  Josiah,  transferred  Sig.  C.,  Oct.  22,  '63. 
Miller,  Herman,  died. 

Mitchell,  Daniel,  discharged,  disability,  '62. 
Moor,  Brice  P>. 

Morgan,  James  M.,  discharged  Nov.  27,  '62. 
Morrow,  James,  discharged  Feb.  27,  '62,  disability. 
Morgan,  Samuel,  discharged  Feb.  27.  '62,  disability. 
Miller,  Samuel  Y..  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Montgomery,    Samuel,    discharged   Aug.    11.    '62,    dis 
ability. 

McCon,  John,  discharged  Nov.  28,  '62. 
McCrady,  John,  died  at  Murfreesboro,  Tenn. 
McCullum,  Edward,  veteranized. 
Me  Knight,  William  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Nutt,  Levi,  veterani/ed. 
Phillips,  KM,  veteranized. 

Roberts,  Francis  M..  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Rodgers,  George  W.,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 
Rose,  Allen  C.,  discharged  July  11,  '63,  disability. 
Rodgers,  William  P..  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 
Rolf,  Walter  C.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Skinner,  William  H.,  transferred  V.  R.  C.  '63. 
Smalley,  Klbert  M'.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 
Smith,  James,  veteranized. 
Scudder,  R.  M. 

Snyder,  Isaac  N.,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 
Stewart,  James  M.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Thompson,  Samuel,  veteranized. 
Vanmeter,  Thomas  G.,  veteranized. 
Williams,  James,  discharged  Oct.  J),  '62,  disability. 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INFANTRY.  153 

Weidner,  William,  veteran. 

Wolstonholm,  John,  veteranized. 

Winans,  Prater  N.,  veteranized. 

\Vilkinson,  Isaac,  veteranized. 

Walker,   Hiram    L.   A.,   discharged    Feb.    7,    '62,    dis 
ability. 

Weston,  Hiram  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Yates.  Joseph,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Young,   Sandford,  died   at   Andersonville,    Ind.,    Feb. 
25,  '62. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  C. 
First  Sergeant — 

Ewan,  James  S. 
Sergeants — 

Henry,  John  S.,  promoted  Second  Lieutenant. 

McKinney,  Samuel,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Carver,  Socrates,  promoted  Second  Lieutenant. 

Hodshire,  James  M.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Corporals — 

Wheeler,  Levi  E. 

Buck,  Peter. 

Day,  Mitchell  H.,  veteranized. 

Carney,  Joseph  W. 

Doyle,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '154. 

(irinstead,  Henry  P. 

Kelly,  Robert  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Green,  Isaiah,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Musicians — 

Rogers.  A. 

Reser.  William. 
Wagoner — 

Rockey,  Nathan. 
Privates — 

Baker,  Stephen,  veteranized. 

Blanchard,  Chapman, 


154  HISTORY   OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Caray,  Patrick,  discharged  Dec.  30,  '62,  disability. 

Child,  Edwin  R.,  veteranized. 

Chamberlain,  Francis  W.,  veteranized. 

Cole,  James  W.,  discharged  Aug.  6,  '62,  disability. 

Cole,  William  J.,  discharged  April  21,  '62,  disability. 

Cooper,  Eli,  died  at  Huntsville,  Ala.,  Sept.  6,  '62. 

Curtis,  X.  H.,  discharged   March  5,  '62. 

Davis,  Robert,  discharged  April  21,  '63,  disability. 

Davidson,  Robert,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Edwards,  Robert  H.,  veteranized. 

Emmert,  William,  veteranized. 

Emmert,  Jacob. 

Ferren,  James  A.  C. 

Ferren,  John  H.,  died  at  Bacon  creek,  Ivy.,  Dec.  29,  '61. 

Fisk,  Brower. 

Force,  Benjamin,  veteranized. 

Force,  Nelson  K.,  veteranized. 

Fowler,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Goltry,  Jacob  F.,  veteranized. 

Goltry,  David,  veteranized. 

Gorbert,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Gordon,  Thomas,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Gordon,  Richard  8.,  discharged  Feb.  19,  '63. 

Grinstead,  Henry  P.,  died  at  Bacon  creek,  Kentucky, 

Jan.  o,  '62. 

Hammond,  William,  discharged  Feb.  4,  '62.  disability. 
Hankins,  Joshua,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Ilirsh,  Jacob,  discharged  Nov.  26,  '62. 
Henson.  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Jackson,  ().  P. 

Johnson,  William  F.,  veteranized. 
Justis,  Lewis. 

Kinnet,  Wiley,  veteranized. 
Kinnet,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '(H. 
Kinnet,  Abraham,  veteranized. 


INDIANA    VOLUNTEER  INFANTRY.  lt)0 

Land,  Samuel,  discharged  Jan.  23,  '63. 

Lackner.  Joseph,  died  atElizabethtown,  Ky.,  Dec.  14,  '61. 

Lawler,  John. 

Long,  "Woodson,  veteranized. 

Liggett,  Edwin,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Myer,  Henry,  discharged  Jan.  14,  '63. 

McGuire.  Michael,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

McKay,  George. 

Me  Lain,  Robert,  veteranized. 

Me  Lain,  Til  ford,  veteranized. 

Minor,  Joseph,  veteranized. 

Meek,  James  H.,  veteranized. 

Moore,  George,  discharged  Feb.  3,  '64,  disability. 

Morgan,  Isaac  N.,  veteranized. 

Moulton,  Christopher. 

Morton,  John,  veteran. 

Myers,  William  V.,  discharged  June  1J),  '62,  disability. 

Jackson,  ().  P. 

Pate,  James. 

Pate,  Benjamin  F.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Phillips,  William,  veteranized. 

Powell,  Joseph,  veteran. 

Prebel,  John  F.,  died  at  Bacon  creek,  Kentucky.  Jan. 

5,  '62. 

Prebel,  Jesse  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Reser,  Lewis,  died  at  Chattanooga  Oct.  26,  '63. 
Rice.    Cyrus,    died    at   Bacon    creek,  Kentucky,    Dec. 

2:>,  '61. 

Rice,  Lafayette  W. 

Rice,  Archy  S. 

Reser,  Marselles.  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Ross,  William  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Roszell,  Thomas,  veteranized. 

Smith,  Parker. 

Stegamiller,  William  F.,  veteran. 


156  HISTORY   OF  THE  THIKTY-SEVENTH 

Strieker,  Michael  W.,  discharged  Nov.  '27.  '62. 

Strieker,  Peter,  discharged  Nov.  26,  '62. 

Sprigerhoff.  Frederick,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Taturn,  Samuel,  discharged  Feb.  12,  '62. 

Tincher,  Robert,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Tumelty,  John,  transferred  to  V.  R.  C. 

Underwood,  Nathan,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Ummensetts,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Utt,  Andrew  J.,  discharged  March  5.  '63. 

Vogan,  George  W.,  veteranized. 

VVarg,  Silas,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Whitcomb,  Lyman,  veteranized. 

Wheeler,  James  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Wiley,   Jerome   B.,  died   at   Shelbyville,   Tenn ,   June 
13,  '63. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  D. 
First  Sergeant — 

Pye,  William  H.,  promoted  Second  Lieutenant. 
Sergeants — 

Cowan,  (ieorge  W  ,  promoted  Second  Lieutenant. 

Vansickle,  Andrew,  discharged  May  15,  '63,  disability. 

Johnson,  David  L ,  discharged  Sept.  16,  '63,  disability. 

Stuart,  Jasper,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Corporals — 

Wilson,  Robert  P.,  transferred  to  Tel.  Sig.  Corps  Oct 
22,  '63. 

Hamilton,  Thomas,  discharged  April  24,  '63,  disability. 

Craig,  John  P.,  discharged  May  2,  '62,  disability. 

Loughridge,  Henry  B.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Lowe,    Simon    I).,   killed   at     Wartrace,    Tenn ,    Sept. 
2,  '63. 

Day,  Mahlon,  veteranized. 

Andrews,  Isaac  H.,  veteranized. 
Musicians — 

Babcock,  Monroe,  discharged  Jan.  17,  '63, 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  INFANTRY.  1")? 

Dickson,  Newton,  veteranized. 
Wagoner — 

Piles,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 
Privates — 

Andrews,  Joseph,  discharged  Oct.  '61. 

Ash,  George  W.,  discharged  Dec.  27.  '62,  disability. 

Abbott,  Junius.  transferred  to  Fourth  U.  S.  Cavalry. 

Burns,   Montalban.   died   at    Bacon   creek,    Kentucky, 
Feb.  21,  '62. 

Buchanan,  George,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64, 

Buchanan,  John,  veteranized. 

Brown,  Marion,  discharged  Jan.  5,  '63,  disability. 

Brown,  Harrison,  veteran. 

Brown,  James  P.,  veteran. 

Callicott,  Henry  L.,  died  at  Elizabethtown,  Ky.,  Dec. 
14,  '62. 

Cady,  Maly  S.,  discharged  May  15,  '63,  disability. 

Coony,  John,  veteranized. 

Clark,   John,   transferred     to   Fourth    U.   S.    Cavalry 
Nov.  27,  '62. 

Cochran,  Levi,  veteranized. 

Colles,  John,  veteranized. 

Grain,  Cornelius  E.,  veteranized. 

Cruser,  Christian,  died  at  Nashville  Nov.  22,  '62. 

Corbin,  Philip,  veteranized. 

Caplinger,  Henry,  veteranized. 

Davis,  Gilford  D.,  veteranized. 

Denny,  Charles  C.,  died  at  Nashville  Nov.  17,  '62. 

Dearinger,  Francis   M.,   discharged   Aug.   20,  '63,   dis 
ability. 

Davis,  William  C.,  discharged  April  7,  '63,  disability. 

Edens,  Ezekiel,  veteranized. 

French,  Thomas,  veteranized. 

Francisco,  Obediah  A.,  veteranized. 

Gallager,  Alexander,  veteranized. 


158  HISTORY    OF  THE  THIKT Y-S.K VEXTH 

Gray,  Thomas,  veteranized. 

Gaskins,  Thomas  B.,  mustered  out  Oct.  7,  '04. 

Griffith,  William,  died  May  7.  '62. 

Hall,  Silas,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 

Hall,  George,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Hallett,  John,  veteranized. 

Hull,  Oran,  discharged  June  11,  '62,  disability. 

Iloffmaster,  Frederick,  veteranized 

Hamilton,  Joseph,  died  at  Huntsville,  Ala.,  June  9,  '62. 

Hamilton,  William,  veteranized. 

Hollensbee,  Edward,  veteranized. 

Hanna,  David,  veteranized. 

Jones,  Stephen,  veteranized. 

Ivnowlton,  Samuel,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04 

Lawrence,  Thomas,  killed    in   action   at    Big  Shanty, 

Ga.,  June  3,  '64. 

Lutz,  Abraham,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64 
Lowe,  Lewis,  veteranized. 
Love,  George  W.,  veteranized. 
Leads,   James,    wounded     at    Pumpkinvine,   captured 

and  died  at  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Lockridge,  Moody  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
McCuen,  Arthur  Sr.,  discharged  Feb.  4,  '63,  disability. 
McCuen,  Arthur  Jr.,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec   31,  '62. 
Morgan,  Warren,  veteranized. 

Martin,  Jeremiah,  discharged  Dec.  5,  '61,  disability. 
McNew,  John  J.,  veteranized. 
May,  John  R.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 
Meulbarger,  William  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Munger,    Washington,  died     at     Louisville,    Ivy.,    Feb. 

3,  '63. 

New  berry,  Gr  anvil  le,  veteranized. 
Oliver,  Nicholas,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 
Packett,  Benjamin,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  April  16,  '62. 
Redlon,  Eben,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  Jan.  11.  '62. 


INDIANA    V<>Lr\TKKH    INFANTRY.  l.V.) 

Ruby.  John  P.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Robert,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Robert,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Risinger,  Washington,  died  at  Bacon  creek.  Ken 
tucky.  Jan.  5,  '02. 

Sanders,  George,  veteranized. 

st  a rkey,  Thomas,  veterani/ed. 

Shook,  Jeremiah  I).,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04, 

Smallwood,  James,  died  at  Elizabeth  town,  Ky.. 
June  1,  '02. 

Stevens,  Benjamin,  veterani/ed. 

Stevens,  William. 

Stevens,  Isaac,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Snedaker,  Christian,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '04. 

Stark,  Thomas,  veteranized. 

Stark,  Benjamin,  veteranized. 

Signer,  William  C.,  died  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  April 
8,  '02. 

Suits,  Charles  C.,  died  at  Shelbyville,  Tenn.,  June 
20.  '02. 

Sage,  Elihu,  veteranized. 

Thackery,  William  B.,  discharged  Xov.  27,  '02.  disability. 

Thackery,  Selector,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Vankirk,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Whitaker,  John,  died  at  Olean,  Ind.,  April  18.  '02. 

Webster,  Lysander,  transferred  to  V.  R.  C. 

Wagoner,  Jacob,  transferred  to  Fourth  T.  S.  Cavalry. 

Wise,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Wehr,  Joshua,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  E. 

First  Sergeant — 

Harvey,  William  B..  promoted  Adjutant. 
Sergeants — 

Ford,  Lafavette,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '04. 


160  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Perry,  Thomas  B.,  discharged  Aug.  8,  '63. 

Raynes,    Will   A.,   died   at   Elizabeth  town,    Ky.,   Dec. 
30,  '61. 

Hungate,  George  W.,  promoted  Second  Lieutenant. 
Corporals- 
Whitlow,  William  A.,  transferred  to  V.  I?.  C.  Nov.  I/  63. 

Guthrie,   Philip   S.,  died   at  Bacon   creek,    Kentucky, 
Feb.  13,  '62. 

Ballard,  Daniel  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64 

Cook,  Abraham  B.,  veteranized. 

Sherman,  Charles  W.,  discharged  May  26,  '63. 

Sidener,  Martin  F.,  discharged  June  1,  '62. 

Gully,  James  W.,  discharged  Jan.  1,  '63. 

Barnes,  Wesley  N.,  discharged  Jan.  1,  '63. 
Musicians — 

Butler,  Nicholas   A.,  died   at   Washington.  D.    C.,  Oct. 
22,  '62. 

Stopper,  William,  veteranized. 
Wagoner — 

Price,  Benjamin  F.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Privates — 

Adkins,  James  G.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Adkins,  Wesley  H.,  discharged  Jan.  20,  '63. 

Ballard,    Columbus,    transferred    to    V.    R.    C.    Nov. 
1,  1863. 

Barton,  Joshua,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64,  Corporal. 

Beck,  Frederick,  veteranized. 

Bowling,  Hiram,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Brooks,  Martin,  died  at  Macon,  Ga.,  Aug.  20,  '62. 

Brooks,  Lewis  C.,  veteranized. 

Buffington,  George  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Buell,  Matthew,  discharged  July  12,  '62,  disability. 

Carter,  Thomas  IL,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Clark,  William  E.,  discharged  Feb.  4,  '63. 

Connet,  Albert  B.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 


INDIANA    YOLVNTKKR    INFANTRY.  161 

Cook,  Andrew  J.,  veteranized. 

Coleman,  Edward,  discharged  Nov.  12,  '6:>. 

Conner,  Reuben  H.,  discharged  June  1,  '62. 

Conner,  James  R.,  killed  in  battle  May  9,  '62. 

Cox,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Christler,  William  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Creed,  Howard,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Davidson,  Samuel,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Deen,  William,  died  at  Bacon  creek,  Ky.,  Feb.  22.  V>2. 

Kno-sminger,  Andrew,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Eubanks,  George  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Favour,  Robert,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Fleming,  George  W.,  discharged  July  27,  '63. 

Ford,  Joseph,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Ford,  Benjamin  F.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  64. 

Garrett,  Oscar  M.,  discharged  Jan.  27,  '63. 

Glass,  John  T.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Gullion,  George  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Hanger,  James  A. 

Heaton,  Robert  F.,  killed  in  battle  May  9,  '62. 

Hogan,  Henry,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Hogan,  Charles,  died  Oct.  19,  '62. 

Hornice,  Gideon,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Hughes,  Addison,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Hunt,  Charles  T.,  discharged  July  12,  '62. 

Johnson,  James  T.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Jordon,  James,  killed  in  battle  May  9,  '62. 

Knapp,  Abram,  veteranized. 

Knight,  Thaddeus  V.,  discharged  Jan.  22,  '63. 

Lewis,  Stephen,  discharged  Nov.  30,  '62. 

Lewis,  James  C.,  discharged  Jan.  6,  '64. 

Martin,  Milton,  veteranized. 

Marsh,  Willard  R.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Maharry,  Jacob,  died  at  Murfreesboro  in  April  1,  '63. 

Marks,  Jos.  A.,  died  at  Elizabethtown.  Ky.,  Dec.  18,  '61. 


162  HISTOItY   OF   THE   THIRTY-SEVENTH 

McKeeon,  William,  veteranized. 

McKee,  James  C.,  veteranized. 

McNeely,  Bert,  veteranized. 

Morgan,  John  T.,  killed  in  battle  May  9,  '62. 

Neeb,  Jacob  W.,  discharged  Nov.  27,  '62. 

Parson,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64,  Corporal. 

Price,  Dudley,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Richy,  William,   died     at     Chattanooga,  Tenn..  Aug. 

10,  '64. 

Rickets,  Enoch,  discharged. 
Scull,  Arthur  ().,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Scull,  Alfred  C.,  killed  in  battle  May  9,  '64. 
Slifer,  Philip,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Slifer,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Smawley,    Reuben,   died   at   Bacon   creek,    Kentucky, 

Feb.  13,  '62. 

Smawley,  Lewis,  discharged  Dec.  1,  '63. 
Smith,  John  H.,  discharged  Aug.  11,  '62. 
Smith,  Benjamin  R.,  discharged  Jan.  2,  '64. 
Stogsdell,  John  B.,  died  at  Macon,  Ga,,  Oct.  14,  '64. 
Stark,  Bethuel  G.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Svvango,  Solomon,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Tevis,  Thomas  S.,  died  at  Charlotte,  X.  C.,  Oct.  12,  '62. 
Tillison.  James,  discharged    Aug.  1,  wounds  received 

in  battle. 

Thompson,  William  II.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Tractvvell,  James,  died    at    Klizabethtown,   Ky.,    Dec. 

19,  '61. 

Walker,  Lafayette,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Wells,  Samuel,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Whitlow,  Buckner  C.,  discharged  Aug.  1.  '62,  wounds 

received  in  battle. 
Wilson,  Milton  M.,  veteranized. 
Wimber,    James,   died     at    Bacon     creek,    Kentucky, 

Dec.  30,  '61. 


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Wilder,  Wesley,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Wooley,  James  H.,  veteranized. 

Wooters,    Albert,    died    at    Bacon    creek.    Kentucky, 

Jan.  <),  '62. 

Wolverton,  John  F.,  veteranized. 
Wood,  Thomas  J.,  veteranized. 
Recruits — 

Stevens,  Thomas  J.,  transferred  V.  R.  C. 
Scott.    Samuel,   transferred    Thirty-seventh    Regiment 

re-organized. 
Woodard,    Charles     W..    transferred     Thirty-seventh 

Regiment  re-organized. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  F. 

First  Sergeant — 

Speer,  William,  promoted  Second  Lieutenant. 
Sergeants — 

Hoover,   William    I.,   mustered    out   Oct.    '27.    '64,    as 
Commissary  Sergeant. 

Barnhart,  Joseph  I.,  mustered  out  Oct.  "21.  '64. 

Passel,  James  L.,  veteran,  promoted  Captain  U.  S.  C.  T. 

Cole,   Eleazer,    mustered     out     Oct.   27,    '64,   as    First 

Sergeant. 
Corporals — 

Wallace,  William  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Spencer,  John  F..  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Richardson,   Josiah,    mustered     out    Oct.     27.    '64,   as 
First  Sergeant. 

Hoover,  George  S.,  died  at  Dillsborough  April  21,  '(53. 

Hundley,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Gray,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Ayers,  William,  died  at  Dillsborough  March  31,  '62. 

Pearson,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Musicians — 

Meyer,  Adam,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 


164  HISTORY  OF  TIIK  Till  RT  Y-SKY  KNTII 

Shott,  Kzekiel,  discharged  Jan.  '29,  '63,  disability. 
Wagoner — 

Shutts,  Aaron,  discharged  April  '63,  disability. 
Privates — 

Ard,  Jacob,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Acre,  Thomas,  discharged  July  31,  '62,  disability. 

Busby,  John  P.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Beall,  Isaac,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Beck,  Foster,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Burroughs,  James  L.,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 

Burroughs,  George,  discharged  Feb.  20,  '63,  wounds. 

Bruce,  John  T. 

Beall,  John,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  March  3,  '63. 

Carnine,  James  M.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Craven,  Henry,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 

Daniel,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Danfort,  Robert,  discharged  June  18,  '62,  disability. 

Gordon,  William  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Green,  William,  discharged  Sept.  16,  '63,  disability. 

Gankroger,  Hartley,  transferred  to  V.  R.  C. 

Gloyd,  William,  died. 

Goddart,  John  F.,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 

Headly,  George,  discharged  April  13,  '63,  disability. 

Hess,  Matthias,  discharged  April  17,  '63,  disability. 

Hair,  David  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Herndon,     Samuel,   died    at     Nashville,    Term.,    Jan. 
16,  '63,  wounds. 

Hess,  Samuel   W.,  died   at   Nashville,  Tenn.,   Sept.   8, 
'62,  wounds. 

Ileaton,  John  P.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Jennings,  Thomas  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Knowles,  Robert  T.,  discharged,  disability. 

Knowles,    William    F.,   discharged   July    28,    '62,   dis 
ability. 

Kirk,  John  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 


INDIANA    VOMNTEKK    IN  FA  NTH  Y.  .        I6f> 

Kincaid.  George,  discharged  Aug.  7,  '62,  disability. 

Kolkmire,  Henry,  discharged  Oct.  18,  '62,  disability. 

Kile,  John  H.,  died  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  Oct.  28,  '62. 

Lenover,  George,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Lemon,  John  T.,  discharged  April  17,  '63,  disability. 

Lenover,  Benjamin,  killed  at  Dallas,  Ga.,  May  27,  '64. 

La/ure,  Elias,  discharged  March  12,  '63,  disability. 

Leiker,  William  F.,  discharged  Nov.  29,  '62. 

Mitchell,  George  S.,  discharged  March  5,  '63,  dis 
ability. 

Morford,  Squire  T.,  discharged  Feb.  6,  '62,  disability. 

Martin,  John,  discharged  Jan.  14,  '63,  disability. 

Morgan,  Jacob  S.,  discharged  April  17,  '63,  disability. 

Martin,  Solon,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  March  7,  '62. 

Munson,  Alfred  G. 

McDonald,  Philip. 

Newberry,  Edward,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Parker,  John,  died  at  Bacon  creek,  Kentucky,  Jan.  5,  '62. 

Palmer,  John,  died  at  Jeffersonville,  Ind.,  June  15,  '64. 

Palmer,  James,  died  at  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  June 
11,  '64. 

Palmer,  Stephen  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Proctor,  Thomas,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Roberts,  Leroy,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Rowland,  William,  discharged  March  30,  '63,  wounds. 

Ruble,  George,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Roberts,  Samuel,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Spencer,  Augustus  E.,  died  at  Tullahoma,  Tenn., 
Aug.  8,  '63. 

Smith,  John  G.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Shutts,  James  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Shutts,  Abram.  discharged  May  27,  '64. 

Sanks,  George  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Sprong,  William  II.,  died  at  Gallatin,  Tenn.,  Jan. 
13,  '63. 


166  HISTORY   OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Banks,  Daniel,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 
Sweazy,    John     M.,    veteran,    transferred    to     U.    S. 

Engineer  July  24,  '64. 

Smith,  Samuel  C.,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 
Smith,  Charles    B.,  died   at   Elizabethtowri,   Ky.,    Dec. 

11,  '61. 
Shepherd,     John      M.,     died       at      Fluntsville,     Ala., 

May  11,  '62. 

Stafford,  John,  discharged  Nov.  25,  '62. 
Stewart,  Charles,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 
Shipman,  \Yilliam  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Shull,  William  J.,  died  Jan.  2,  '63,  wounds. 
Teake.  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Tate,  George  discharged  July  31,  '62,  disability. 
Thomas,  Thomas,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Vandolah,  Joseph  C.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Vidito,  Willis,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Vandolah,  Joseph,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64,  prisoner. 
Withrow,  John  Q.  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Wilson,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Wilson,  William  T.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64,  Corporal. 
Warner,  Marcus  D.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
White,  William,  died  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  Jan.  17.  '63. 
Winter,  Henry  F.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Weitzel.  Henry  M.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 
Recruits — 

Brumley,  Charles   W.,  died  at   Nashville,  Tenn.,  Jan. 

31,  '62. 

Godert,  John  G.,  killed  at  Dallas,  Ga.,  May  27,  '64. 
\faritz,  William  K.,  discharged  Feb.  3,  '63,  disability. 
Shedrick,  Johnson,  died  at  Murfreesboro  July  24,  '64. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  G. 

First  Sergeant— 

DeArmond,  James  M. 


INDIANA    YOU   NTKKK    1NFAXTHV.  167 

Sergeants — 

Baughman.  William  H.,  promoted  Second  Lieutenant. 

Lee,  Aaron  S.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 

Hetrick,  John  S.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Clendening,  James  S.,  died  in  Kentucky  Jan.  13.  '62. 
Corporals — 

Bartow,  John  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  ?64. 

Gray,  John  M..,  discharged  Feb.  6,.  63,  disability. 

(Iray.    Philetus     M.,  died     at    Nashville,  Term..    Feb. 
13.  '<;:{. 

Hinds,  James  J.,  discharged  Sept.  23,  '64. 

Keen.  Peter,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 

Bayles,  Samuel  R.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Baker.  Oliver  B.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Bo  we,  Samuel  B.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Musicians — 

Fox,  John  H..  veterani /ed. 

Shields,  Samuel  C.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Wagoner — 

Keeler,  Ira  M.,  veteranized. 
Privates — 

Allen,  Robert,  discharged  March  14,  '63,  disability. 

Anthony,      Henry,     died      at     Murfreesboro.     Tenn.. 
April  9.  '63. 

Armstrong,  James  T.,  mustered  out  ( )ct.  27.  '64. 

Abbott,  Oscar,  died  at   Louisville,  Ky..  Jan.  12.  '62. 

Adams,  Charles  G.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Adams,  Wilson  AY.,  discharged  Oct.  4.  '62,  disability. 

Barbour.  Samuel,  discharged  Feb.  19,  '63,  disability. 

Brady,  Isaac  N.,  died  at  Springfield,  Ind.,  Feb.  27.  '63. 
Burk,  Coleman   S,  died   June   6,  '64.  of    wounds    re 
ceived  at  Dallas.  Ga. 
Bals.  Philip,  discharged  Xov.  27.  '62. 

Cochran,  William  II.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27.  '64. 
domiciling,  Adison   W..  died  in   Kentucky  Jan.  f>,  '62. 


168  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Conery,  Dennis  W..  died  Jan.  27,  '63.  of  wounds 
received  at  Stone  river. 

Coen,  Marion,  discharged  Jan.  30,  '63. 

Craig,  William  H.,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 

Eckley,  Edward,  discharged  July  14,  '62. 

Fisher,  James  A.,  veteranized. 

Finley,  George  W.,  discharged  March  26,  '63,  dis 
ability. 

Gamber,  John,  veteranized. 

Gray,  David  I!.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Greenlee,  James  S..  veteranized. 

Golladay,  Thomas  T,  died  at  Nashville.  Term., 
March  25,  '63 

Goshorn,  Wilson  N.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Glisson,  Elisha  E  ,  killed  at  Dallas,  Ga.,  May  27,  '64. 

George,  Atwell,  veteranized. 

(Gordon,  Frank,  discharged  in  August,  '62. 

Hinds,  Benjamin  F.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Hamlin,  John,  veteranized. 

Hannah,  William  T.,  died  at  Elizabethtown.  Ivy., 
Nov.  22,  '61. 

Hannah,  Thomas  C  ,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  64 

Kelly,  William,  veteranized. 

Kelly,  Ellis,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Keeler,  John  M.,  veteranized. 

Kennedy,  John  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Liming,  William,  veteranized. 

Luse,  Robert  H.,  discharged  Sept.  4,  '63,  disability. 

Lynch,  John  P.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Millspaugh,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

McCaw,  James  S  ,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Mathews,  Henry  P.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Maddin,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Miller,  John,  veteranized. 

Miles,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 


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Proctor,  Abram,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Roberts,  William  F..  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Rowe,  James  P.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Reynolds,  William  M.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Scott,  Joseph,  veteranized. 

Stone,  Henry,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Sconeld,  Edward,  veteranized. 

Stout,  Jefferson  M.,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  Jan.  27,  '62. 

Small,  Edward,  discharged  May  26,  '63,  disability. 

Sutton,  William,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 

Souter,  Oswell,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Sickler,  George  M.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Snoddy,  Robert  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Self  ridge,  William  R.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Sizelone,  Joseph  R.,  veteranized. 

Schaub,  Frank,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  Jan.  25,  '62. 

True,  Thomas  F.,  veteranized. 

Thomas,  Lewis,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  Jan.  20,  '62. 

Taylor,  Squire  A.,  transferred  to  Co.  B  Thirty-seventh 

Regiment  re-organized. 
Viley,  Isaac,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Woodapple,  Charles  E.,  discharged  Jan.  20,  '63. 
Weeks,  John. 

Wood,  John,  discharged  July  9,  '62,  disability. 
White,  Eber  C.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Welch,  John,  discharged  Xov.  27,  '62. 
Young,  Charles  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
/ink,  William  IL,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Zubrick,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Recruits — 

Bartlow,  William    H.,  transferred    to    Co.   B    Thirty- 
seventh  Regiment  re-organized. 

Hetrick,  James  W.,  discharged  April  21,  '63,  disability. 
Ilamlin,    Omer,  transferred   to   Co.    I>   Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  re-organized. 


170  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Larue,  George  X ,  transferred  to  Co.  B  Thirty-seventh 

Regiment  re-organized. 
Lowes,  Cyrenus  S.,  transferred  to  Co.  B  Thirty-seventh 

Regiment  re-organized. 
Millspaugh,  George    C.,  transferred  to   Co.    B  Thirty  - 

seventli  Regiment  re-organized. 
Shafer,  Henry  J.,  transferred  to  Co.  B  Thirty-seventh 

Regiment  re-organized. 
Vaness,  Ephraim,  discharged  Xov.  27,  '62. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  H. 

First  Sergeant — 

Burk,   James   H.,   died    at   Nashville,   Tenn.,   July   9, 

'64,  of  wounds. 
Sergeants — 

Douglas,  Jno.  S  ,  died  at  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  June  15,  '64. 

Smith,  Levi,  dropped  from  the  rolls  Oct.  31,  '62. 

Fowler,  Benjamin  D.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Hice,  John  L.,  promoted  First  Lieutenant 
Corporals — 

Tevis,  Augustus  H.,  promoted  Second  Lieutenant. 

Proctor,  Joel  M.,  killed  at  Dallas,  Ga.,  May  27,  '64. 

Jones,  John,  died  at  Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  March  14,  '62. 

Paul,    John     J.,    died     at     Camp     Jackson,     Tenn., 
March  5,  '62. 

Roop,  John  M.,  discharged  Feb.  9,  '63,  wounds. 

Button,  David  B.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Jackson,  Cyrus  A.,  discharged  Oct.  4,  '64,  wounds. 

Garrison,  Joseph  W.,  transferred  to  V.  R.  C.  Jan  15,  '64. 
Musicians — 

Tyner,  Isaac  J.,  discharged  June  5,  '62.  disability. 

Cunningham,    James     J,    transferred    to    V.    II.    C. 

May  15,  '64. 
Wagoner — 

Moor,  Milton  G.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 


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Privates — 

Brunton,  Xoah  L.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Burk,  William  H.,  dropped  from  rolls  Oct.  31,  '62. 
Burk,  Xewton,  discharged  Dec.  1,  '62,  disability. 
Baldwin,    William,    transferred     to      Fourth     U.     S. 

Cavalry. 
Buck,   James,  died   at   Xashville,  Tenn.,   Jan.    16,  '63, 

wounds. 

Cowen,  Squire  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Cowen,  Harrison,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Cowen,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Clark,  Benjamin  F.,  veteranized. 
Davis,  Edward,   discharged   Nov.  27,  '02,  to    enlist  in 

r.  S.  Cavalry. 

Dickson,  Samuel,  discharged  June  3,  '62,  disability. 
Day,  James  C.,  discharged  April  27,  '63,  disability. 
Douglas,  David,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Demoss,  Benjamin  L.,  died  at  Murfreesboro  May  4,  '63. 
Day,  Henry,  died  at  Murfreesboro  March  12,  '63. 
Daily,  Barton  X.,  veteranized. 
Diggs,  George   C.   W.,  died   at    Bowling   Green,   Ky., 

March  2,  '62. 

Enos,  Stephen,  transferred  V.  R.  C.  Xov.  15,  '63. 
Ewbanks,  Robert,  discharged  March  27,  '63,  disability. 
Ford,  William  S.,  dropped  from  rolls  Oct.  31,  '62. 
Ford,  Thomas  S  ,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  Feb.  19,  '63. 
Ferguson,  James  P.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Fredinburg,  Hiram,  died  at  Evansville,  Ind.,  Xov.  4,  '63. 
Fry,  Alfred,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Harper,  Samuel,  dropped  from  rolls  Oct.  31,  '63. 
Hunter,  Lewis  M.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Hoter,  John,  discharged  Dec.  20,  '62,  disability. 
Hutchison,  Jacob  A.,  died  at  Murfreesboro  Feb.  11,  '(>;>. 
Hunter,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Harry,  Daniel,  discharged  Sept.  10,  '63,  disability. 


172  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Homsher,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Harrell,  William,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Harrell,  John  S  ,  discharged  Oct.  18,  '61,  disability. 
Johnston,  John  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Laforge,    William,    died     at    Camp     Jefferson,    Ky., 

Jan.  5,  '62. 

Moor,  Martin,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
McCracken,  Francis    F.,    discharged    March    25,    '63, 

wounds. 

Miller,  Samuel,  transferred  to  V.  R.  C.  Nov.  21,  '63. 
Martin,  Richard,  dropped  from  rolls  Oct.  31,  '63. 
Murray,   William     R.,   killed    at    Murfreesboro,   Ky., 

Dec.  31,  '62. 
Miller,  James,   discharged   Nov.    28,   '62,   to   enlist   in 

U.  S.  Cavalry. 

McClure,  Samuel  M..  promoted  Assistant  Surgeon. 
Mitchell,  James  T.,  discharged  Oct.  18,  '62,  disability. 
Owen,  Anderson,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Patrick,  Warren,  discharged  Jan.  14,  -'63,  disability. 
Patrick,  Elisha  G.,  died  at  Huntsville,  Ala.,  July  13,  '62. 
Patrick,  James,  discharged  Dec.  4,  '62,  disability. 
Pettit,  James,  discharged  Aug.  5,  '62. 
Peak,  James  W.,  killed  at  Dallas,  Ga.,  May  27,  '64. 
Robbins,  Absalom,  dropped  from  rolls  Oct.  31,  '62. 
Robbins,  Harrison,  killed  at  Murfreesboro  Dec.  31,  '62. 
Rutherford,  Anderson,  veteranized. 
Stonecypher,  David,  discharged  June  6,  '62,  disability. 
Shattuck,  Nathaniel,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64, 
Stout,  Theodore  L.,  dropped  from  rolls  Oct.  31,  '62. 
Scott,  James  R.,  died  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  Oct.  9,  '62. 
Shafer,  William  G.,  transferred  to  V.  R.  C.  April  30,  '62. 
Shera,  Thomas  W.,  died  at  Murfreesboro  May  4,  '63. 
Starrett,  Benjamin,  discharged  July  9,  '62. 
Shirk,    Thomas    A.,   mustered    out    Oct.    27,    '64,    as 

Sergeant. 


INDIANA    VOLCXTKKI;    INFANTRY.  173 

Sha\v,  Zemry.  died  at  Murfreesboro  April  14,  '(>'2. 
Steward,  Henry  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Snook,  Martin  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Thompson,    William    A.,    discharged     Oct.     24,    '63. 

wounds. 

Waggoner,  Andrew,  dropped  from  rolls. 
Williams,  Samuel,  killed  at  Murfreesboro  Dec.  31,  '62. 
Watson,   Alfred,   died     at   Chattanooga   July   24,    '64, 

wounds. 

Woodall,  John  D.,  discharged  Aug.  27,  '62.  disability. 
Wimmer,  John  C.,  discharged  June  20,  '62,  disability. 
Whittaker,  Robert,  discharged  May  12,  '63,  disability. 
Y  auger,  Isaac,  discharged  Sept.  25,  '61,  disability. 
Recruits — 
Denham,  Benjamin   T.,  transferred   to  Thirty -seventh 

Regiment  re-organized. 
Denham,   James     B.,    transferred     to     Thirty-seventh 

Regiment  re-organized. 
Ward.  James,  transferred  to  Thirty-seventh  Regiment 

re-organized. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  I. 

First  Sergeant — 

Myers,  George  W.,  promoted  Second  Lieutenant. 
Sergeants — 

Bodine,  Jeremiah  M.,  veteranized. 

Huff,  Robert   B,,  died   at   Murfreesboro   Jan.    23,  '63, 
wounds. 

Bodine,  William  A.,  discharged  Oct.  9,  '63,  disability. 

Dunn,  Isacc  M.,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky. 
Corporals — 

Meyer,   Jacob,    mustered     out   Oct.     27,    '64,    as    First 
Sergeant. 

Bachert,  Joseph,  veteranized. 

Pernell,  Robert  K.,  veteranized. 

Ong.  Theodore  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 


174  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Cox,  Eli,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  T>4. 

Owen,  John  J.,  veteranized. 

Jones,  James  B.,  discharged  March  23,  '63,  disability. 

White,  Thomas  J.,  veteranized. 
Musicians — 

Pierce,  John  I).,  veteranized. 

Christopher,  Michael  J.,  veteranized. 
Wagoner — 

Harry,  James,  veteranized. 
Privates — 

Abercrombie,  William. 

Amon,  Frederick,  veteranized. 

Alfred,  Joshua,  died  June  27,  '64,  wounds. 

Bodine,  James  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Burlbaw,  John,  veteranized. 

Burgdurfer,  Louis,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Burlbaw,  Nicholas,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Burchard,  John  H.,  discharged  Oct.  18,  '61. 

Brasher,  Robert  W.,  discharged  July  22,  '63. 

Childers,  Ezekiel,  discharged. 

Cross,  James  H.,  killed  at  Dallas  May  27,  '64. 

Cuppy,  Henry  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Carpenter,  Oliver,  veteranized. 

Cox,  Thomas  J.  No.  1,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Camron,  John,  veteranized. 

Cox,  Thomas  J.  No.  2,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Cox,  William  A.,  veteranized. 

DeArmond,  Alfred. 

Dove,  Isaac. 

Dunn,  Samuel  H.,  veteranized. 

Davis,  Mansion,  died  Nov.  18,  '64,  wounds. 

Gibson,  Charles  H.,  veteranized. 

Goss,  Andrew  A.,  discharged  Dec.  9,  '62,  disability. 

Gordon,  John. 

Hennecy,  John,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 


INDIANA    YOl/TXTEEK   IXFAXTUV.  175 

Hough,  Daniel  L.,  discharged  in  January,  '64. 

Harrison,  Levi,  veteranized. 

Johnson,  Charles  F.,  veteranized. 

Johnson,  Jacob. 

Jones,  Reuben,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31,  '62. 

Kennedy,  John,  veteranized. 

Kelly,  Barnard,  veteranized. 

Longely,  Peter,  veteranized. 

Lofland,  Littleton,  discharged  May  18,  '63,  disability. 

Larman,  Frederick. 

McClelland,    Francis     M.,   discharged     Jan.    23,    '62, 

disability. 

McKinney,  Michael,  discharged  Nov.  27,'  62,  disability. 
Martin,   Eleazer,   died     at   Chattanooga,    Tenn.,   June 

19,  '64,  wounds. 

Morris,  Levi,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Martin,  Sterling  A.,  discharged. 

Maple,  Ephraim  B.,  discharged  July  9,  '62,  disability. 
Massey,  Drewney  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
McWethy,  X.  Jerome,  died  at  Murfreesboro  Jan.  23,  '63. 
Mitchel,   George    H.,   died   at    Camp   Jefferson,    Ky., 
Xelson,  Derastus  W..  veteranized. 
North,  Thomas  J.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Xulker,  Joseph,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Payne,  William,  veteranized. 
Powell,  John,  veteranized. 

Itees,  Tyre,  died  at  Camp  Jefferson,  Ky.,  Dec.  7,  '61. 
Straight,  William  H.,  veteranized. 
Stoll,  John  G.,  veteranized. 

Stowbridge,  Daniel  O.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Shaw,  Joshua,  died  at  Murfreesboro  Jan.  17,  '63. 
Shiveley,  William  II.,  discharged  Xov.  27,  '64. 
Spears,  John,  veteranized. 
Sails,  Daniel,  discharged  June  23,  '62. 
Shoure,  Joseph. 


176  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Snyder.  John,  veteranized. 

Smith,  John  W.,  discharged. 

Smith  Eppenetus,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Thorp,  Marcus  L.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Tucker,  William,  discharged  April  22,  '63,  disability. 

Travilian,  William,  discharged  Xov.  27,  '62,  disability. 

Taylor,  John. 

Turk,  Samuel  H.,  discharged  Dec.  10.  '62. 

Widener,  Abram  T.,  veteranized. 

Widener,  Leonard,  veteranized. 

Williamson,  John,  veteranized. 

Whitcomb,  Lewis,  discharged  Jan.  23,  '63,  disability. 
Recruits — 

Bohlander,  John,  transferred  to  Co.  A  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  re-organized. 

Critchlow,  Evans,  transferred  to  Co.  A  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  re-organized. 

Dalrymple,  Charles   L.,  transferred   to   Co.  A   Thirty- 
seventh  Regiment  re-organized. 

Hornung,  Lewis,  transferred  to  Co.  A  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  re-organized. 

Hornung,  Andrew,  transferred  to  Co.  A  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  re-organized. 

Kinney,   John,   transferred   to    Co.   A   Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  re-organized. 

Linville,  Thomas,  transferred  to  Co.  A  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  re-organized. 

Long,  John,  died  at  Bacon  creek,  Kentucky,  Dec.  7,  '61. 

Maynard,  Henry,  transferred  to  Co.  A  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  re-organized. 

Mulkins,  James  H.,  died' June  19,  '64,  of  wounds. 

Redlow,  Daniel  M.,  promoted  Quartermaster  Sergeant. 

Somerville,  James   W.,  transferred   to    Co.   A   Thirty- 
seventh  Regiment  re-organized. 

Uppinghouse,   Eli    F.,   transferred    to   Co.    A   Thirty- 


INDIANA   VOU'NTEKR   INFANTRY.  177 

seventh  Regiment  re-organized. 

Uppinghouse,  John   B.,  transferred   to    Co.   A    Thirty- 
seventh  Regiment  re-organized. 

Enlisted  Men  of  Co.  K. 

First  Sergeant — 

Pattoii,  John,  died  of  wounds  received  at  Stone  river 

Feb.  13,  '63. 
Sergeants — 

I  tanner,  Samuel  T.,  discharged  Aug.  7,  '63. 

Puntenney,  George    H.,  mustered   out   Oct.   27,  '64,  as 
Sergeant  Major. 

Lingenfelter,  John   F.,  died   at    Howling   Green,  Ky., 
Feb.  23,  '62. 

Hunt,  William  K.,  promoted  First  Lieutenant. 
Corporals — 

Schwartz,  David,  discharged  Dec.  29,  '63. 

Stewart,  John  M.,  killed  at  Dallas  May  27,  '64. 

Plough,  William  J.,  transferred  to  V.  R.  C.  Feb.  11,  '64. 

Elstun,   Marion,  died    of   wounds   at    \rining   Station, 
Ga.,  July  23,  '64. 

Cowan,  Elbert  N.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Rankins,   James     W..   killed     at  "  Peach     Tree   creek 
July  20,  '64. 

Richey,  Jasper,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 

Cowan,  Robert,  discharged  March  18,  '63.  disability. 
Musicians — 

Bastian,  Sibrant,  veteranized. 

Butler,  James  S.,  transferred  V.  R.  C. 
Wagoner — 

O'Brien,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Privates — 

Brown,  John  E.,  mustered  out  Oct.  24,  '64. 

Blair,  Joseph,  mustered  out  Oct.  24,  '64. 

Black,  Jeremiah,  mustered  out  Oct.  24,  '64. 


178  HISTORY  OP  TITE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

IJowlby,  Mahlon  I.,  mustered  out  Oct.  24.  '64. 

Boylan,     Thomas,    mustered     out     Oct.     27,     '64,     as 

Musician. 

Holing,  William  C.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Cowan,  John  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Culver,     John     W.,     transferred     to     Signal      Corps 

Jan.  13,  '64. 

Clemonts,  Joseph,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Davis,  Elbert  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Davis,  John  W.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64,  as  Corporal. 
Davis,  John  W.  B.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Elliott,  John  L.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Endicott,  John  T.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
(Jabal,  Fielding,  died  at  Decherd,  Tenn.,  Aug,  8,  '62. 
Glass,  Lowry  M.,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  Jan.  20,  '62. 
Glass,  Samuel,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64,  as  Corporal. 
Holmes,  Alexander,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Harrison,  Isaac  N.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Hall,  James  M.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Hudelson,  Rufus  I.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Hudelson,  William  H.,  discharged,  disability. 
Huston,  William  R.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Hemerly,  Wilbur  W.,  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  Jan.  8,  62. 
Jones,   Erastus   T..   died    at    Bacon   creek,    Kentucky, 

Jan.  21,  '62. 

Jackson,  Henry,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Jones,  William  B.,  discharged,  disability. 
Junkin,  Washington,  transferred  V.  R.  C.  Jan.  15,  '64. 
Kirkem,  Andrew  B.,  killed  at  Stone  river  Dec.  30,  '62. 
Kethsel,  Jacob,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Lindsay,  Clinton,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Lothridge,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
McClain,    Arthur,    mustered     out     Oct.     27,    '64,    as 

Corporal. 
McCullough,  Jacob  S.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 


INDIANA   YOLl'NTEEK  INFANT!!1* '.  17^) 

McGhee,  James,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Mitchell,  James  W.,  discharged  March  22,  '63,  wounds. 
Morgan,  Philip  A.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
McGuiness,  Thomas,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Mitchell,    William    T.,    died     at    Shelbyville,    Tenn., 

June  14,  '62. 
Patton,    Samuel    R..    mustered    out    Oct.    27,    '64,  as 

Corporal. 

Patton,  William  C.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Rankin.    Jeremiah,    discharged    in    March,    '62,    dis 
ability. 

Rankin,  William  11.,    killed  in  battle  July  21,  '64. 
Rankin,  Samuel  A.,  discharged  in  March,  '62. 
Ruddell,  James  H. 

Stewart,  David  S.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Stewart,  Harrison,  discharged,  disability. 
Stephens,  James  M.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Stewart,  Samuel  P.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Stewart,   William    N.,   mustered   out   Oct.   27,  '64,   as 

Quartermaster  Sergeant. 

Scott,  William  H.,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64,  as  Sergeant. 
Thompson,  Robert  S.,  killed  in  battle  at  Dallas,  Ga., 

May  27,  '63. 

Williams,  Charles,  transferred  to  V.  V.  C.  Nov.  15,  '63. 
Wiggins,  Henry  B.,  transferred  to  V.  R.  C. 
Recruits — 

Butler,   Alexander    S.,  transferred    to   Co.    B   Thirtv- 

seventh  Regiment  re-organized. 
Buck.    William      L.,    died     at    Murfreesboro,    Tenn., 

May  20,  '63. 

Minor,  Joseph,  mustered  out  Oct.  27,  '64. 
Mitchell,  David  L.,  transferred  to  Co.  15  Thirty-seventh 

Regiment  re-organized. 
Morelock,  John    B.,  died   at   Murfreesboro,  Tenn..   of 

wounds,  Jan.  16,  '63. 


180  1IISTOHY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Stewart,  Robert  0.,  killed  in  battle  June  18,  '64. 
Thorn,  John    D.,  transferred   to  Co.    H  Thirty-seventh 
Regiment  re-organi/ed. 

Unassigned  Recruits. 
Brown,  Theodore  F. 
Bond,  Levi  L. 
Bassett,  Lewis. 
Daniel,  William  E. 
Davis,  Allen. 
Davis,  Charles  L. 
Hook,  George. 
Mitchell,  Daniel. 
Mullen,  James  M. 
Monroe,  Calvin. 
Miller,  William  Hards. 
Moore,  Craven  B. 
Sharp,  James  W. 
Scott,  James  W. 
Taten,  Samuel  A. 
Whitcomb,  Lewis  J. 
Vates,  John  P. 


THE  MARCH  TO  THE  SEA. 

"Sherman's  Bummers"  Having  a  High  Old  Time. 

September  19th,  1864,  the  non-veterans  took  their 
departure  for  Indianapolis.  We  were  loth  to  part  with 
them,  and  with  sad  hearts  we  watched  the  old  flag  as  it 
receded  from  view  toward  the  rear.  We  felt  that  we 
were  orphaned  indeed  as  we  bade  them  a  kind  adieu. 

After  the  non-veterans  had  gone  home  there  re 
mained  about  two  hundred  and  twenty -five  men — some 
of  them  recruits  and  some  half  dozen  Lieutenants 
which  were  formed  into  two  Companies  and  a  detach 
ment,  designated  as  Co.  A  and  Co.  B  residuary  battalion 
Thirty-seventh  Indiana  Veteran  Volunteer  Infantry. 
Three  of  the  Lieutenants  resigned  in  a  few  days  and 
thirteen  non-commissionejcl  officers  were  discharged  for 
the  reason  that  that  number  were  made  superfluous  by 
reason  of  the  consolidation  , of  Companies.  First  Lieu 
tenant  John  L.  Henry  was  given  command  of  the  bat 
talion  ;  Companies  A,  D  and  I  were  consolidated  and 
called  Co.  A  detachment  Thirty-seventh  Indiana  Veteran 
Volunteer  Infantry,  with  Second  Lieutenant  George  M. 
Myers  in  command :  Companies  B,  C  and  K  were  con 
solidated  and  called  Co.  B  Thirty-seventh  Indiana 
Veteran  Volunteer  Infantry,  with  Second  Lieutenant 
Socrates  Carver  in  command.  The  men  of  the  remain 
ing  four  Companies  were  consolidated  into  a  detach 
ment  under  Sergeant  Wolverton.  of  Co.  K.  Some  of  our 
men  AN  ere  absent,  sick  and  with  wounds,  a  large  per 


182  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

cent,  were  at  once  detailed  in  Quartermaster,  Com 
missary  and  Ordnance  departments,  and  the  rest — 
about  eighty  men,  were  detailed  as  guards  to  the  corps 
supply  train  under  charge  of  Capt.  Remington.  On 
Oct.  1st  sixty  of  our  men  went  back  to  Nashville  after 
mules  for  teams. 

Our   headquarters  remained   for    some   time  where 
the  Regiment  left  us,  and  taking  down  some  buildings, 
with  the  material  we  had,  constructed  quite  comfortable 
quarters;  but  we  were  not  allowed  to  enjoy  them  very 
^g&gSifo.  1( "'.-'•    as     about    this    time 

j«PQJ9fi£|  Hood    undertook    his   mem- 

^^^^^  orable   campaign    on   Xash- 

Tp  ville,   which    terminated   in 

^^fc|^  the  destruction  of  his  army, 

^BMlb  ^en-      Thomas,     with      the 

JBppP,  Fourth     and     Twenty-third 

^ggp  X  H  corps,  fell    back  in   advance 

^  J     _  of  Hood,  and   (ion.   Sherman 

pursued  with  the  rest  of 
the  army  except  the  Twen 
tieth  corps,  which  remained 
at  Atlanta.  There  was  but 

George  w.  Eubank,  Co.  E.        little      lighting    except      at 
Indianapolis,  ind.  Altoona      Pass,    where     the 

Johnnies  attempted  to  sei/e  our  commissary  stores. 
But  (Jen.  Corse  held  the  fort  and  the  Confederates  were 
severely  punished.  We  came  up  soon  after  the  battle 
and  assisted  in  collecting  some  of  the  dead  and 
Avounded  Johnnies  whom  their  friends  had  left  in  their 
haste  to  get  away  before  being  overtaken  by  our  army 
in  their  rear.  Hood  with  his  army  continued  north 
through  Kingston,  Calhoun,  Resaca,  and  when  near 
Dalton,  having  destroyed  much  of  the  railroad,  turned 
to  the  left,  passed  through  Snake  Creek  Gap  to  Sum- 


INDIANA    YOLINTKER   VETERAN: 


183 


merville,  thence  into  Alabama,  our  troops  closely  pur 
suing.  Our  wagon  train  passed  through  Snake  Creek 
(rap,  thence  to  Mattox  Gap,  thence  down  the  Chat- 
tooga  valley  to  Galesville,  Ala.  Here  Gen.  Sherman 
gave  up  the  pursuit  of  Hood  about  the  20th  of  October, 
and  the  army  rested  about  a  week.  This  being  a  rich 
valley,  much  forage  and  provisions  were  collected  and 
much  destroyed. 

From  here  the  army  set  out  again  for  Atlanta.  The 
first  day,  after  a  hard  march  over  a  rough  country,  AVC 
reached  Rome,  Georgia, 
rested  a  day  or  two,  then 
moved  on  to  Kingston, 
where  we  remained  several 
days.  While  here  Xov.  8th, 
the  Presidential  election 
was  held.  All  the  troops 
were  allowed  to  vote  except 
those  from  Indiana,  this 
privilege  our  patriotic  legis- 
islature  denied  us.  The  next 
day  the  paymaster  made  us 
a  welcome  visit  and  we  re 
ceived  several  months'  pay. 

Our  next  move  was  to 
Cartersville,  where  we  re 
mained  several  days.  The  railroad  had  been  repaired 
and  a  great  many  trains  were  running,  bringing  up 
commissary  supplies  and  taking  back  ordnance  and 
other  stores.  At  this  time  a  great  many  refugees  were 
going  north  on  the  trains.  While  here  four  hundred 
recruits  came  to  us  for  the  purpose  of  tilling  up  our 
Regiment  again,  and  were  put  in  charge  of  Lieut. 
Carver  until  such  time  and  opportunity  came  for  us  to 
re-organize,  which  time  never  came,  as  will  appear  later, 


T.  H.  Carter.  Co.  E. 
Moscow.  Ind. 


184 


HISTORY  OK  THE  THIBTY-8EVENTH 


As  soon  as  the  last  train  had  gone  north  the  work  of 
destroying  the  railroad  and  other  property  commenced. 
All  the  little  towns  and  stations  were  burnt,  the  railroad 
torn  up,  the  ties  burnt  and  rails  twisted  as  the  army 
passed  along.  Sherman  did  not  intend  that  his  or  any 
other  army  should  ever  pass  that  way  again. 

When  we  arrived  at  Atlanta  we  found  half  of  it  in 
ashes  and  the  next  day  the  rest  of  it  was  burnt,  only  a 
few  houses  escaping.  On  Nov.  20th  Gen.  Sherman  set 
his  army  in  motion  for  the  memorable  march  to  the  sea. 

The  army  of  the  Tennessee, 
under  Gen.  (.).  O.  Howard, 
and  the  army  of  Georgia 
Fourteenth  and  Twentieth 
corps,  under  command  of  H. 
W.  Slocum,  and  a  column  of 
cavalry,  under  Gen.  Judson 
Kilpatrick. 

Here  our  small  command 
was  transferred  from  the 
supply  train  to  corps  ordnance 
train  as  guards.  Our  line  of 
inarch  was  by  way  of  Coving- 
ton,  Millegeville,  Saunders- 
ville,  Louisville,  a  little  to  the  right  of  Waynesboro. 
thence  down  the  Savannah  river  to  the  city.  Just  after 
leaving  Atlanta,  Lieut.  Myers  was  authorized  to  borrow 
enough  horses  from  the  citizens  to  mount  twenty  men, 
whose  duty  it  was  to  collect  supplies  for  the  rest  of  us. 
They  were  soon  mounted  and  at  work.  One  morning 
when  about  twenty  miles  below  Millegeville,  they  were 
surprised  by  a  body  of  Confederate  cavalry,  arid  Lieut. 
Myers  and  Private  J.  W.  Sharp,  of  Co.  B,  and  two 
others,  were  captured:  two  were  killed,  two  badly 
wounded  and  left  on  the  ground;  the  rest  escaped. 


John  Wolverton,  Co.  E. 
Greensbuig.  Ind. 


INDIANA    VOL.rNTK.KK    VKTEKANS.  185 

At  that  time  Sergeant  Isaac  H.  Andrews,  of  Co.  A, 
and  two  others  of  the  same  Company — old  Company  D, 
were  captured,  taken  into  the  woods  and  shot  with 
pistols.  William  Hamilton  and  the  other  one  fell  at 
the  first  fire.  Andrews  did  not  fall  till  he  was  shot  the 
second  time. 

The  rebels  stood  at  the  left  and  rear  of  their  pris 
oners.  The  first  ball  struck  Andrews  at  the  angle  of  the 
left  jaw  and  came  out  under  the  left  eye,  breaking'  the 
left  jaw  and  cheek  bone.  The  second  shot  struck  be 
hind  the  left  ear,  and  coming- 
out  through  the  right  cheek, 
fractured  the  cheek  bone, 
knocking  him  down. 

The  rebels  then  took  the 
contents  of  the  pockets  of 
those  killed,  taking  one  hun 
dred  and  two  dollars  from 
Andrews,  He  could  hear 
them  talking,  but  could  not 
move.  One  of  them  asked : 
•'Have  you  searched  all  his 
pockets?''  and  was  answered,  Eibert  N.  Cowan,  Co.  K. 
•'Yes."  Just  at  that  time  he  Monmoutn.  in. 

heard  another  shot  and  was  struck  in  front  of  the  right 
ear,  the  ball  lodging  back  of  his  eyes,  where  he  carried 
it  for  eight  years.  One  day  while  working  in  the  field 
ho  began  to  sneeze,  when  out  dropped  the  ball.  Ser 
geant  Andrews  says  that  since  Xov.  25th,  1864,  he  has 
never  seen  a  day  that  his  head  has  not  pained  him  in 
some  way. 

After  having  lain  for  some  time  he  came  to.  and 
tried  to  move,  but  was  too  weak.  After  some  time  he 
crawled  over  to  where  one  of  the  other  boys  lay  and 
found  he  was  dead.  After  he  had  sat  there  for  some 


186  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

time  a  negro  came  to  him,  and  stooping-  down  told  him 
to  put  his  arms  around  his  neck.  Then  tfhe  negro 
carried  him  to  a  house,  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile,  where 
there  were  two  white  women  and  some  negroes.  The 
two  white  women  treated  him  kindly,  dressed  his 
wounds  and  made  him  as  comfortable  as  possible.  He 
was  found  by  some  of  the  Twenty-second  Indiana  boys 
and  taken  to  our  ambulance  train  that  evening  and 
hauled  through  to  Savannah.  On  the  6th  day  of  Jan 
uary,  1865,  Sergeant  Andrews  being  able  to  travel,  came 
home  on  a  furlough.  After  remaining  at  home  thirty 
days,  he  reported  at  Indianapolis.  As  his  wounds  had 
not  healed  they  ordered  him  to  be  taken  to  the  hospital. 
He  did  not  want  to  go,  and  was  sent  home  for  ten  days 
longer.  After  this  he  reported  again  although  his 
wounds  were  still  running,  and  was  given  transporta 
tion  to  New  York  where  he  had  to  wait  for  a  week. 
From  Xew  York  he  was  sent  to  Hilton  Head,  S.  C.  He 
was  not  able  to  join  his  Regiment,  and  was  sent  up 
Broad  river  to  a  convalescent  camp  in  the  latter  part  of 
February,  1865.  After  being  in  this  camp  a  few  days  he 
took  erysipelas  in  his  wounds  and  was  sent  to  Beaufort, 
S.  C.,  to  the  hospital,  where  he  came  near  dying. 

In  March  he  was  sent  to  Xew  York  to  Fort  Schuyler 
hospital,  where  he  stayed  until  April,  when  all  Indiana 
soldiers  were  ordered  sent  to  their  own  State.  He  went 
to  Madison,  where  he  was  discharged  June  14.  1865. 
Comrade  Andrews  is  still  living  at  Osgood,  Ind.,  at 
this  time,  May,  1896. 

On  Dec.  4th  there  was  a  sharp  fight  at  Waynesboro 
within  hearing  of  us.  On  the  10th  Savannah  was  in 
vested  by  our  army  and  on  the  12th  of  December  (ien. 
Ha/en's  division  of  the  Fifteenth  corps  captured  Fort 
McAlister  on  the  Oguchee  river.  On  the  20th  the  Con 
federate  army,  under  (Jen.  Hardee,  evacuated  the  city 


INDIANA    VOU'NTKKK    VKTKKANS.  187 

and  crossed  over  into  South  Carolina.  The  next  day 
our  forces  took  possession  of  it  and  large  quantities  of  stores 
fell  into  our  hands.  The  train  parked  near  the  edge  of 
the  city  and  we  camped  nearby,  keeping  guard  over 
the  ammunition  train.  There  was  not  much  lighting  on 
the  way  down  and  we  came  by  easy  marches.  Three 
days'  rations  were  issued  at  Atlanta  and  a  small  ration 
at  Millegeville;  the  rest  of  our  supplies  were  taken 
from  the  country  as  we  passed  along.  They  consisted 
principally  of  sweet  potatoes,  fresh  pork  and  molasses, 
which  was  found  in  ample  abundance  for  our  daily 
wants.  But  for  a  few  days  before  rations  could  be  re 
ceived  from  the  ocean  transports,  our  supplies  ran  low 
and  there  was  nothing  in  the  country  to  get  except  rice 
and  that  was  mostly  unthrashed.  The  mills  were  set 
going,  but  were  not  adequate  to  supply  the  demand  of 
the  men.  Yet  it  was  a  great  help  to  tide  us  over  the 
'•pinch."  We  tried  thrashing  by  hand  and  tried  cook 
ing  it  with  the  hull  on,  but  it  was  uno  go/' 

Our  army  moved  in  four  columns,  and  a  strip  of 
country  forty  miles  wide  was  cleaned  of  everything 
that  was  of  any  use  to  us  or  that  could  be  of  any  use  or 
comfort  to  the  enemy.  Our  foragers  gathered  up  all 
the  horses,  mules,  cattle  and  everything  that  could  be 
used  by  our  army.  The  mules  were  put  into  the  wagon 
trains,  the  horses  into  the  batteries  and  the  cattle  were 
killed  and  the  beef  issued  to  the  men.  All  wagons, 
carts,  plows  and  implements  of  every  description  that 
were  of  any  use  were  piled  up  and  burned.  All  houses 
that  were  not  occupied,  barns  and  outhouses  of  every 
description  were  all  burned.  The  men  would  run  the 
grist  mills  until  the  rear  guard  came  along,  when  they 
would  be  set  on  lire.  We  were  not  out  of  sight  of  the 
smoke  of  burning  buildings  from  Atlanta  till  we  got  in 
front  of  Savannah. 


188 


OF  TIIK  THIKT Y-SE VENTII 


The  men  with  the  wagon  trains  had  to  work  day 
and  night  making  corduroy  roads  and  helping  the 
wagons  and  batteries  over  the  swampy  places.  Small 
streams  were  bridged  with  small  trees  and  poles  and 
the  larger  ones  were  pontooned. 

The  boys  were  all  on  the  watch  for  something  to 
come  around  looking  for  an  owner.  Some  of  them  had 
a  habit  of  looking  out  for  themselves,  and  mess  No.  2 
was  not  an  exception.  Just  before  leaving  Atlanta, 
Foster  was  looking  around  and  saw  a  sack  of  coffee 

leaning  up  by  itself  "sort 
of  lonesome  like.''  His 
knife  blade  coming 
against  it,  he  caught  a 
Sibly  hat  full  and  mess 
Xo.  2  had  coffee  enough 
to  last  them  till  they  got 
to  the  sea. 

On  the  fourth  day,  out 
from  Atlanta  we  halted 
to  rest  in  front  of  a  house 
where  there  were  chick 
ens  running  around  loose. 
A  negro  cook  for  some 

James  Coulter.  1st   Sergeant   and  1st    officers   "Wanted  some   one 
Lieutenant  Co.  B.  Amelia.  O.  tQ       j^-      hig       new      tin 

bucket  while  he  tried  to  charm  some  of  the  fowls.  Hol- 
lingsworth,  of  mess  Xo.  2,  said  he  would  hold  it,  and 
when  the  cook  came  back  with  his  chickens  the  bucket 
had  gone  off  with  Hollingsworth.  Well,  that  bucket 
did  service  with  Xo.  2  and  many  were  the  chickens  and 
sweet  potatoes  that  were  cooked  in  it.  At  the  battle  of 
IJentonville,  X.  C.,  Hollingsworth  had  it  on  his  belt 
when  the  Johnnies  shot  the  side  out  of  it  and  ruined  it 
for  further  use. 


INDIANA    YOLl'NTKKK    V  KTKI5  A  NS. 


189 


Three  or  four  days  before  we  arrived  at  Savannah 
George  Bloom  and  two  or  three  others  started  out  early 
in  the  morning-  foraging  and  went  on  the  road  on  which 
our  division  was  moving.  There  had  been  a  rain  the 
night  before  and  after  they  had  gone  three  or  four 
miles,  they  saw  a  fresh  wagon  track  in  the  mud.  They 
followed  it  up  and  found  a  darkey,  three  mules  and  a 
wagon  near  the  side  of  the  road  in  a  sink  hole  in  the 
woods.  The  wagon  bed  was  nearly  full  of  hams  and 
shoulders.  Bloom  took  command;  the  darkey  drove 
out  to  the  road  and 
waited  till  our  wagon 
train  came  up  when  they 
fell  into  line  with  their 
prize.  We  had  a  good 
supply  of  hams  for  a  few 
days.  The  darkey  had 
been  sent  from  our  right 
wing  to  save  the  pork, 
but  fell  in  with  us.  Evi 
dently  the  natives  did 
not  know  that  we  were 
quite  so  numerous  and 
that  darkey's  boss  lost 
his  mules,  wagon,  meat, 
darkey  and  all.  What 
was  his  loss  was  our  gain,  but  we  never  went  back  to 
thank  him  for  his  present.  Soon  after  getting  pos 
session  of  the  city  of  Savannah  our  supplies  were 
received  at  the  wharf  from  the  ocean  vessels  in  great 
abundance.  The  enterprising  Yankee  also  was  there 
with  trading  vessels  from  the  North  laden  with  fruits, 
vegetables,  etc.,  to  sell  to  the  army.  Apples  and 
oranges  sold  as  high  as  tifty  dollars  per  barrel,  potatoes 
and  onions  as  high  as  twenty  dollars  per  barrel  and 


Martin  Moor.  Co.  H, 
Forest  Hill.  Ind. 


.190  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

fifty  per  cent,  higher  retail.  Then  the  provost  marshal 
interfered  and  prices  became  more  reasonable. 

While  the  Companies  were  near  Savannah  they 
were  sent  out  one  evening-  to  support  a  battery  near  the 
fort  that  Gen.  Lincoln  had  built  near  the  old  Ebene/er 
church  that  he  used  as  a  hospital  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution.  The  battery  was  to  intercept  a  rebel  gun 
boat  that  was  reported  to  be  up  the  river ;  but  the  boat 
failed  to  come,  and  we  did  not  get  to  immortalize  our 
selves  by  blowing  it  out  of  the  river  or  sinking  it.  How 
ever,  some  of  the  boys  went  to  the  cemetery  and  slept 
by  the  graves  of  the  Revolutionary  patriots. 

On  the  march  from  Atlanta  negroes  of  all  ages, 
sexes,  shades  and  grades,  by  the  thousands  followed  our 
army,  carrying  a  few  household  goods  in  all  imaginable 
shapes,  sizes  and  varieties.  How  they  managed  to  sub 
sist  has  always  been  a  mystery  to  us.  When  we  arrived 
at  Savannah  the  able-bodied  men  were  set  to  work 
building  fortifications  and  the  rest  were  sent  to  Hilton 
I  Lead.  Those  four  hundred  recruits  with  which  we  had 
expected  to  re-organize  our  Regiment  were  taken  away 
from  us  just  before  our  arrival  at  Savannah  and  put 
into  other  Regiments;  then  we  were  doomed  to  remain 
a  residuary  command  for  the  rest  of  our  service. 

About  this  time  Lieut.  Henry  resigned  and  went 
home.  When  he  reached  Indianapolis  he  recommended 
to  Gov.  Morton  that  First  Sergeant  Thomas  Kirk  be 
commissioned  First  Lieutenant  of  Co.  A — Lieut.  George 
Myers  having  been  captured,  and  that  Second  Lieu 
tenant  Socrates  Carver,  Sergeants  James  Coulter  and 
Mitchell  H.  Day  be  commissioned  Captain,  First  Lieu 
tenant  and  Second  Lieutenant,  respectively,  of  Co.  15. 
The  commissions  were  issued  to  date  from  Dec. 
24th,  1864,  a  Christmas  gift  from  the  Governor. 
The  army  remained  at  the  city  several  weeks. 


INDIANA    YOUNTKKR    YKTKKANS.  191 

The  weather  was  tine  and  we  had  a  good  time  gen 
erally.  While  the  army  was  at  Chattanooga  there  was 
a  detail  made  from  the  Regiment  for  guard  for  the  first 
Division  Quartermaster  Department,  and  when  the  non- 
veterans  returned  home  their  places  were  filled  from 
the  men  that  remained.  Ln  all  of  the  campaign  to  the 
sea  they  did  their  full  share  in  all  the  duties  that  fell  to 
their  lot.  They  brought  in  a  great  many  horses  and 
mules  and  turned  them  over  to  the  Quartermaster. 
They  made  a  good  many  narrow  escapes  from  being- 
captured  and  acquired  considerable  skill  in  foraging. 
Some  of  the  soldiers  thought  they  must  keep  it  up  to  a 
certain  extent  for  fear  they  might  get  out  of  practice ; 
so  three  or  four  of  them  went  over  to  the  Company  one 
evening  while  they  lay  near  Savannah,  and  getting 
some  help  from  the  Company,  made  a  raid  on  a  lot  of 
provisions  that  some  parties  had  stored  in  the  back  yard 
at  a  house  near  the  Company's  camp.  Lieut.  Carver 
and  some  of  the  other  officers  occupied  the  house  and 
at  the  rear  of  the  yard  was  a  fence  about  eight  feet  high, 
boarded  up  and  down.  Two  or  three  of  the  men  were 
helped  over  and  they  lifted  the  barrels  of  potatoes, 
onions  and  other  eatables  upon  the  fence,  where  they 
were  caught  by  the  boys  on  the  other  side.  All  Avere 
carried  away  some  distance,  the  barrels  were  emptied 
and  the  supplies  divided.  Our  boys  borrowed  a  mule 
from  one  of  the  teamsters  without  his  consent  and 
carried  their  part  to  their  camp.  The  next  morning 
there  were  some  fellows  out  on  the  hunt  for  their  stores. 
They  found  some  empty  barrels,  but  not  the  contents. 
However,  some  of  the  men  feasted  on  potatoes  and 
other  vegetables  for  several  days. 

The  Quartermaster  kept  a  very  good  cow  and  his 
cook  was  very  proud  of  her.  He  fed  her  all  the  forage 
she  would  eat  and  led  her  out  every  day  to  graze.  With 


192 


HISTORY  OF  THK  THIRTY-SKY  KNTI I 


all  this  good  care  the  darkey  could  not  understand  why 
she  failed  in  her  milk  in  the  mornings.  The  soldiers 
had  to  guard  her,  too,  with  their  other  duties,  and  some 
of  them  could  milk.  They  thought  as  there  were  several 
of  them  they  would  help  the  cook  with  his  milking,  but 
they  always  did  their  part  early  in  the  morning  before 
the  cook  waked  up.  The  Captain  did  not  have  so  much 
milk  for  his  whisky  punch,  but  the  boys  had  plenty  for 
their  coffee.  Sergeant  Tip  Davis,  of  Co.  B,  was  detailed 
as  Division  Ordnance  Sergeant.  His  quarters  were 

Onear  the  arsenal  in  a 
little  frame  building  that 
was  put  up  for  the  guards 
before  we  came  in  pos 
session.  Tip  got  very 
sick  while  we  were  in 
|||  this  camp  and  T.  G.  Van 

Meter,    of     Co.     B,    \\rent 
^gp          I^VlL  over   to    be    company  for 

c 


I 


one  n'-llt-  The 
next  morning  some  of 
the  doctors  went  to  see 
Tip  and  said  he  had  a 


J.  S.  McCullough.  Co.  K?  Indian 
apolis.  Ind.  One  of  the  boys  who 
did  not  enlist  for  fun,  believing 
the  struggle  would  be  long  and 
bloody,  but  having  an  unwavering 
faith  in  the  ultimate  triumph  of 


very  bad  case  of  vario- 
loid;  he  was  then  moved 
to  the  small-pox  hospital. 
Van  Meter  was  very 
much  worried  about  his 


the  right:  served  as  private  Co.  K  chailCCS    of   becoming    af- 

imtil  Febmary.  ?63,  and  balance  of  ,.  -,  -,  ,      -,       •,  • 

time  on  detached   duty  at    head-  fected      and       asked      hlS 

quarters    Pioneer  Brigade    Army  mess  to   not  put  tOO  much 

of  the  Cumberland.  seasoning  in   their   cook 

ing,  as  he  wanted  to  diet  so  he  would  not  be  sick 
when  his  time  came.  That  suited  the  rest  of  the  boys 
first  rate,  as  they  did  not  have  any  more  than  they 


INDIANA   VOLTNTEKH    VKTKRAXs. 


could  eat  anyhow;  so  they  put  in  all  the  seasoning  they 
wanted  and  Van  Meter  half  starved  for  nine  days. 
Tom  got  up  the  ninth  morning'  with  some  of  Job's 
afflictions,  and  did  not  sit  down  for  some  days.  The 
varioloid  did  not  trouble  him  any  more  after  that. 

Savannah  is  a  quaint  looking1  old  town,  with  broad 
but  unpaved  streets,  and  some  fine  monuments.  About 
the  20th  of  January,  1865,  our  wing  of  the  army  moved 
out  a  few  miles  from  the  city  and  camped  for  a  day  or 
two,  some  troops  from  the  Eastern  army  having  arrived 
to  garrison  the  city.  We 
moved  to  Sister's  Ferry  on 
the  Savannah  river,  about 
fifty  miles  above  the  city, 
and  camped  again.  There 
had  been  heavy  rains,  the 
river  was  high  and  the  low 
lands  on  the  opposite  side 
were  inundated.  Here  the 
army  remained  several 
days,  partly  on  account  of 
the  high  water  and  probably 
to  get  a  better  supply  of 
provisions  before  severing 
connection  with  our  base  of 
supplies.  In  a  few  days  the  boats  came  up,  bringing 
provisions,  mail,  etc.  The  wagons  were  loaded,  the 
boats  returned,  a  pontoon  was  laid  and  the  army  crossed 
over  into  South  Carolina. 

While  at  Sister's  Ferry  our  three  Companies,  very 
much  against  our  will  and  protest,  were  separated.  Co. 
A  was  assigned  to  duty  with  the  Thirty-eighth  Indiana, 
Co.  15  to  the  Twenty-second  Indiana  and  the  other  men 
were  sent  to  the  Eighty-eighth  Indiana.  Companies  A 
and  B  were  allowed  to  retain  their  Company  organi/a- 


B  .F.  Denahm.  Co.  H. 
Sardinia.  Ind. 


194 


HISTORY   OF  TIFK  Till  RT  V-SE  VENTH 


tion,  but  the  other  men  were  distributed  to  different 
Companies  of  the  Eighty-eighth  Indiana.  Our  Co.  B 
was  now  in  Third  Brigade,  Second  Division,  Fourteenth 
A.  C. ;  Co.  A  and  the  other  men  were  in  the  First 
Division  Fourteenth  A.  C.  Our  Brigade  was  composed 
of  Twenty-second  Indiana,  Fifty-second  Ohio,  Eighty - 
fifth,  Eighty-sixth  and  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fifth 
Illinois,  and  was  commanded  by  Brevet  Brigadier  Gen. 
Fearing.  Capt.  William  Snodgrass  was  in  command  of 
the  Twenty-second  Indiana.  He  was  a  rough  man, 
but  kind  to  his  men  and  brave  to  a  fault.  This  was  one 
of  the  oldest  Regiments  in  the  service,  first  commanded 
by  Jeff.  C.  Davis,  who  was  at  this  time  commanding  the 
Fourteenth  Corps.  The  boys  of  the  Twenty-second 
were  a  brave,  generous-hearted  set  of  fellows  and  we 
became  very  much  attached  to  them. 

Our  line  of  march  was  by  way  of  Lawtonville, 
Barnwell  Court  House,  Columbia  and  Winsboro,  S,  C., 
and  from  Fayetteville  to  Goldsboro,  N.  C.  It  was  early 
in  February  when  the  army  set  out  to  go  through  the 
Carolinas.  The  recent  heavy  rains  had  swollen  the 
streams  and  filled  the  Edisto  Swamp.  At  times  it  was 
difficult  to  make  headway,  sometimes  having  to  wade 
for  hours  through  water  knee  deep  and  deeper,  always 
cold  and  frequently  icy.  When  near  Columbia  the 
right  wing  of  the  army  joined  ours  from  the  East.  At 
Columbia  the  enemy  showed  a  disposition  to  fight.  We 
were  formed  into  a  line  of  battle,  but  before  we  got  in 
sight  of  town  the  Johnnies  fied.  John  Coiles,  of  Co.  A, 
was  killed  here. 

Our  wing  of  the  army  passed  to  the  left  of  Colum 
bia,  crossed  the  Saluda  and  Broad  rivers,  then  stopped 
a  day  or  two  to  destroy  a  railroad.  Our  Regiment 
(the  Twenty-second  Indiana),  was  .  the  first  to  cross 
Broad  river,  going  over  in  pontoon  boats  and  standing 


INDIANA    YOLUNTKKH    VKTKHANS.  195 

guard  while  the  bridge  was  being'  put  down.  While 
crossing  the  Wateree  river  a  .  heavy  rain  came,  and  the 
river  rising  suddenly,  the  bridge  gave  way.  It  was  sev 
eral  days  before  all  got  over  and  under  headway  again. 
Here  service  Avas  required  that  tried  the  patience  and 
endurance  of  the  men ;  working  in  the  rain  and  mud 
day  and  night  getting  the  teams  over  the  rivers  and 
hills — a  pension  hater's  "picnic."  One  evening  we 
were  detailed  to  assist  the  wagon  trains  over  the  worst 
roads  that  we  ever  saw.  It  was  a  partly  decayed  cor 
duroy  or  plank  road  and  we  had  about  six  minutes  to 
make  camp.  There  would  be  a  few  rods  of  reasonably 
good  road,  then  there  would  be  a  hole  without  any 
bottom,  apparently;  the  mules  would  be  unable  to  ex 
tricate  the  wagons,  and  then  we  would  have  to  put  our 
shoulders  to  the  wheels.  By  dint  of  much  loving  talk 
to  the  mules  by  the  teamsters  and  much  lifting  on  our 
part,  with  a  few  cheering  words  from  the  wagon  mas 
ters,  we  would  finally  get  the  wagons  out  of  the  hole 
only  to  have  to  help  the  next  one.  We  covered  the  six 
miles  by  about  eight  o'clock  the  next  morning,  a  muddy, 
tired  and  wet  lot  of  men.  This  night's  work  was 
through  a  turpentine  forest  in  which  the  trees  had 
been  scored  for  a  number  of  feet  from  the  ground. 
After  dark  the  exuded  sap  was  fired  on  the  trees  for 
quite  a  distance  from  the  road.  Taking  the  swearing 
by  the  teamsters  and  the  wagon  masters,  the  struggling 
mules,  the  jerking  and  rumbling  of  the  wagons  on  the 
planks  and  the  jokes  or  ejaculations  of  the  men  with 
the  fantastic  shadows  cast  by  the  struggling  men,  mules 
and  wagons,  made  a  sight  worthy  of  a  painter. 

After  this  we  came  into  a  better  country.  There 
was  a  Confederate  force  a  few  miles  below  us  on  the 
Great  Pedee  river — the  right  wing  having  run  them 
away  and  they  were  supposed  to  be  in  our  front  on  the 


19(J 


HISTORY  OF  TIIK   T  II I  KT  Y-SK  V  KNT  II 


opposite  side  of  the  river.  Here  occurred  one  of  those 
incidents  that  helped  to. make  soldiering  interesting  as 
well  as  somewhat  perilous.  Our  Co.  B  was  stationed  at 
the  ferry  to  watch  and  report  if  there  were  any  of  the 
enemy  about.  All  being  quiet,  the  pontooners  came 
at  midnight,  put  a  few  boats  together,  launched  them, 
and  our  Company  getting  in,  pulled  across.  It  was 
very  dark  and  we  drifted  some  distance,  but  finally 
reached  the  other  shore  and  scrambled  up  the  bank  as 
fast  as  we  could.  We  found  ourselves  in  a  dense  thicket 

of     underbrush,    but     fortu- 

jMP^*^  nately    no     enemy.        Then 

j  iL  the    Regiment    followed    in 

M     "^  $P3Pw  ^e     manner,    and    a    little 

after  daylight  the  bridge 
was  completed,  when  troops, 
trains  and  all  passed  over 
in  safety.  But  we  felt  a 
little  "shaky"  at  first,  as  we 
did  not  know  what  kind  of 
a  reception  awaited  us  over 
there. 

The  next  place  of  interest 

W.   A.    Way  land.  Private   Co.    A.  * 

born  in  1845:  mustered  in  July  25.  Vllle,    X.      C.        This     was      a 

1861:   mustered  out  Aug.  i,  1865.  small   town    of   ancient   ap- 
Beulah.  Col. 

pearance.   situated     on     the 

south  side  of  Cape  Fear  river.  It  was  said  to  have  been 
of  considerable  importance  to  the  confederacy,  as  great 
quantities  of  ordnance  were  made  there  during  the  war. 
March  12th,  1865,  our  "bummers"  drove  away  a  small 
force  and  captured  the  place  before  the  head  of  the 
column  came  up.  George  Bloom  and  one  or  two  others 
of  our  Company  were  in  the  engagement.  The  army 
rested  here  two  or  three  davs. 


INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  VETERANS.  197 

On  March  16th  our  cavalry  got  into  an  engagement 
with  the  enemy  about  twenty  miles  north  of  Fayette- 
ville,  at  Aversboro,  and  were  getting  the  worst  of  it 
when  the  infantry  came  up  to  assist  them.  Our  Brigade 
was  on  the  extreme  left  of  the  line  reaching  to  Cape 
Fear  river,  and  was  the  last  to  get  in.  It  was  about 
night  when  we  got  in  front  of  the  enemy's  works  and 
the  fight  was  nearly  over.  However,  the  Regiment  lost 
several  men,  killed  and  wounded.  Ed  McCullum,  of 
our  Company,  was  wounded  Some  of  the  boys  re 
gretted  that  they  lost  all 
their  rations.  Mess  No.  2 
lost  their  sack  of  sweet  po 
tatoes  and  had  no  supper. 
Next  morning  Andy  Bell 
came  up  with  a  few  peas 
and  they  had  peas  for 
breakfast.  Our  cavalry  lost 
a  good  many  men;  they  also 
killed  and  captured  a  good 
many  of  the  enemy,  among 
others  the  notorious  Gen. 

I1U  *    o       A*.     *•»         T  Milton  G.  Moor.  Co.  H. 

Ilhette.   of    South    Carolina. 

Forest  Hill.  Ind. 

The  enemy  retreated  during 

the  night,  and  on  the  morning  of  the  17th  our  forces 
moved  forward  again,  meeting  no  serious  opposition 
until  the  19th  when  near  Bentonville,  N.  C.  Here 
were  the  combined  forces  of  Gen.  Joe  Johnson 
and  others  entrenched  across  our  road.  The  First  and 
Second  Division  Fourteenth  A.  C.  were  in  advance  and 
came  rather  unexpectedly  on  the  Confederates,  who 
came  out  of  their  works.  After  some  severe  fighting 
our  lines  fell  back  some  distance,  when  the  Twentieth 
corps  came  up  and  the  Johnnies  were  driven  back  to 
their  works  with  heavy  loss,  leaving  many  of  their  dead 


198  HISTORY   OF  THK  Til  I  KT  Y-SK  VENTI I 

and  wounded  in  our  hands.  Granville  Smith,  a  young- 
recruit  of  Co.  B,  captured  a  Confederate  picket  the  next 
morning  as  he  was  sitting-  asleep  by  a  tree,  and  turned 
him  over  to  the  Brigade  Commander.  Granville  was 
very  proud  of  his  prize. 

Our  forces  followed  up  within  a  short  distance  of 
the  enemy's  works,  and  entrenching  themselves  waited 
for  the  other  wing  of  our  army  to  come  to  our  assistance. 
On  the  afternoon  of  the  21st  they  struck  the  Confederate 
left  and  in  a  short  time  the  whole  rebel  army  was  flying 
across  the  country.  The  battle  of  Bentonville  was  com 
paratively  a  small  affair,  yet  it  was  a  very  severe  one 
considering  the  number  of  troops  engaged.  The  loss  on 
our  side  was  considerable,  and  the  Confederate  loss  was 
supposed  to  be  greater.  The  Twenty-second  Indiana 
lost  thirty-four  men,  killed  and  wounded,  our  Company 
losing  three  in  wounded.  Gen.  Fearing,  Brigade  Com 
mander,  was  severely  wounded  in  the  hand.  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Langley,  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fifth 
Illinois,  assumed  command  of  the  Brigade  and  retained 
it  till  the  close  of  the  war.  Edward  Schoiield,  originally 
of  Co.  B,  but  serving  with  Co.  I  Eighty-eighth  Indiana, 
was  killed.  The  writer  has  not  been  able  to  learn  what 
part  Avas  taken  by  the  rest  of  the  Thirty-seventh. 

On  the  morning  of  March  22d,  the  road  being- 
clear,  our  army  set  out  for  Goldsboro,  twenty  miles  dis 
tant,  and  reached  that  point  on  the  24th.  March  10th 
Isaac  Wilkinson,  Levi  Cochran  and  Samuel  Taten  were 
captured  while  out  foraging.  Wilkinson  said  the  first 
thing  his  captors  asked  for  was  his  money  and  watch. 
In  their  hurry  they  did  not  take  time  to  search  him,  so 
he  gave  them  a  small  amount  of  change  he  had  in  one 
pocket,  and  while  hurrying  him  out  through  the  swamp 
for  fear  they  might  be  captured  themselves,  he  threw 
away  his  poeketbook  and  watch,  lie  thinks  if  he  were 


INDIANA    VOU'NTKKH    VKTKBAXS.  199 

down  there  now  he  could  find  it.  After  they  got  their 
prisoners  away  some  distance  from  the  road  they  com 
menced  to  trade  hat  and  boots  with  them.  They  traded 
hat  and  boots  three  times  with  Wilkinson,  and  when  the 
fourth  one  wanted  to  trade  Ike  told  him  to  keep  the 
whole  outfit.  He  thinks  he  did  the  poorest  trading-  he 
ever  did  in  his  life.  After  they  were  taken  inside  of 
the  enemy's  lines  their  horses  were  taken  from  them 
and  they  marched  two  days  and  nights  bare-footed  and 
bare-headed.  At  Goldsboro  a  junction  was  formed 
with  the  Fourth  and  Twenty-third  corps  under  Gen. 
Schotield,  the  Tenth  corps  under  Gen.  Terry  and  all 
under  command  of  Gen.  Sherman.  We  now  felt 
superior  to  the  combined  forces  of  the  Confederacy. 

Here  ended  the  Carolina  campaign.  It  had  been 
the  hardest  campaign  we  had  ever  experienced,  not  in 
righting,  but  in  marching  and  exposure.  For  two 
months  in  the  winter  season  we  had  been  on  the  march, 
had  passed  entirely  through  one  State  and  a  part  of  two 
others,  waded  creeks  and  swamps  and  mud.  We  had 
slept  on  the  damp  ground  with  little  shelter  from  the 
elements,  and  often  with  but  scant  rations.  Hundreds 
of  men  were  hatless  and  shoeless,  and  all  as  black  as 
Africans  from  standing  around  pine  knot  fires.  It  was 
very  trying  on  the  health  and  endurance  of  the  men. 
yet  no  one  murmured.  It  had  rained  fifteen  days  and 
nights  since  we  crossed  the  Savannah  river  at  Sister's 
Ferry,  and  the  roads  were  in  a  very  bad  condition, 
almost  impassable  in  many  places — not  a  very  desirable 
place  for  "picknicking." 

The  country  through  which  we  passed  was  gen 
erally  very  poor,  there  being  much  pine  forest  and 
many  turpentine  camps.  The  latter  made  line  bon- 
tires.  Very  little  property  of  any  kind  escaped  de 
struction  in  South  Carolina,  but  in  Xorth  Carolina 


200 


HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 


dwellings  Avere  generally  spared.  Almost  everything 
else  was  taken  or  destroyed.  Goldsboro  was  a  dilapi 
dated  town  near  the  Neuse  river,  and  in  a  fairly  good 
farming  country. 

April  10th,  1865.  This  morning  our  army  is  again 
on  the  march,  now  in  the  direction  of  Raleigh,  which 
place  was  reached  on  the  13th.  It  was  a  small,  quaint, 
old  town,  surrounded  by  a  jungle  of  underbrush  and 
the  poorest  excuse  for  a  State  capital  we  ever  saw. 
When  nearing  Raleigh,  mess  No.  2  thought  they  would 

put  on  a  little  style,  so  they 
got  them  a  negro  to  cook 
and  carry  the  cooking 
utensils.  In  the  morning 
after  reaching  the  city,  the 
negro,  having  had  the  cramp 
the  night  before,  died  while 
they  were  eating  breakfast. 

On  the  15th  our  corps, 
being  in  the  advance, 
reached  Haywood,  a  small 
town  on  the  Cape  Fear 
river,  and  about  thirty  miles 
southwest  of  Raleigh.  On 
the  12th  we  received  the  news  of  the  surrender  of  Lee's 
army.  Our  troops  were  wild  with  excitement  and  made 
the  woods  ring  with  their  cheering.  On  the  15th  three 
of  our  Company — Mike  Grob,  Myer  Bowers  and  Fred 
Aman  were  taken  prisoners  while  foraging  and  taken  to 
Johnson's  camp ;  but  in  a  few  days  they  were  released 
and  returned  to  us  near  Raleigh.  There  was  no  fight 
ing  after  leaving  Goldsboro  except  a  little  skirmishing. 
The  last  man  we  saw  who  was  killed  in  battle  AVJIS  a 
captain  in  some  Ohio  Regiment  who  was  killed  April 
10th  while  on  the  skirmish  line,  and  some  of  his  men 


J.  H.  Wooley.  Co.E. 
Arkansas  Citv.  Kas. 


INDIANA  VOLrXTKKR    V  KTKI!  ANS. 


\vere  in  the  act  of  hurrying-  him  by  the  roadside  as  we 
passed  by.  Our  portion  of  the  army  remained  at  the 
Cape  Fear  river  while  negotiations  for  the  surrender  of 
Johnson's  army  were  pending-.  Upon  the  capitulation 
of  Johnson's  army  we  were  officially  informed  that  the 
war  was  over.  This  caused  not  only  great  rejoicing  in 
our  army,  but  it  was  also  glad  tidings  to  the  hundreds  of 
Johnnies  whom  we  saw  returning  to  their  homes.  Hut 
many  a  poor,  misguided  felloAv  found,  upon  returning, 
only  a  chimney  and  a  pile  of  ashes  to  mark  the  place 
he  once  called  home.  At 
about  the  same  time  we 
received  the  news  of  the 
assassinatian  of  Presi 
dent  Lincoln,  which  cast 
a  gloom  of  sorrow  over 
the  army. 

On  April  21st  we 
moved  back  to  near  a 
place  called  Holly 
Springs,  some  fifteen 
miles  west  of  Raleigh. 
This  \vas  considered  our 
first  day's  march  toward 
home.  One  night  there 
was  very  heavy  musket 
tiring  out  two  or  three  miles  toward  the  front,  and  some 
staff  officers  went  out  pell  mell  to  learn  the  cause.  They 
returned  shortly  and  reported  it  to  be  a  Brigade  out 
there  jollifying.  Of  course  the  officers  did  not  enjoy 
getting  out  at  midnight,  and  strict  orders  were  issued 
against  firing  after  that.  Our  camp  was  pleasantly  sit 
uated  in  the  woods,  and  the  weather  was  delightful. 
There  was  some  very  good  farming  land  here  and  the 
crops  were  promising ;  the  wheat  was  knee  high  and  the 


William  Miles.  Co.  G. 
Whitcomb.  Ind. 


202  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

corn  large  enough  to  work.  The  surplus  stock,  mules, 
etc..  belonging  to  our  army  were  turned  over  to  the 
citizens  to  assist  them  in  growing  their  crops.  About  a 
week  after  coming  to  Holly  Springs  we  were  ordered  to 
prepare  to  march  to  Richmond,  Va.,  and  this  was  the 
first  time  in  nearly  four  years  of  army  service  that  we 
were  informed  of  our  destination  before  getting  there. 

May  1st  the  four  corps  that  marched  with  Sherman 
to  the  sea  set  out  for  Richmond,  each  on  a  different 
road,  and  each  ambitious  to  be  the  first  to  get  through. 
Our  corps  carried  off  that  honor,  the  distance  being 
about  one  hundred  and  fifty  or  sixty  miles,  and  was 
marched  in  seven  days.  The  men  were  in  light  march 
ing  order,  carrying  only  a  few  rounds  of  ammunition 
and  a  small  quantity  of  provisions.  The  weather  was 
warm  and  we  marched  very  fast.  Many  men  fell  out 
by  the  way  exhausted,  and  some  died  from  over-march 
ing.  Orders  were  strict  against  foraging  and  destroying 
property,  yet  we  did  now  and  then  take  the  top  rail  off 
the  fence  to  make  a  fire  with  which  to  prepare  our 
meals.  We  camped  on  the  south  of  James  river,  near 
Richmond,  and  the  sutlers  that  came  out  to  make  their 
"stake"  off  of  Sherman's  army  were  disappointed,  for 
Ave  had  not  received  any  pay  for  several  months.  How 
ever,  we  did  not  propose  to  be  aggravated  by  having 
good  things  around  and  not  have  some  of  them.  Fn  the 
evening  there  could  be  seen  a  good  many  sutler  tents, 
but  the  next  morning  they  had  all  gone  and  their  goods 
were  distributed  pretty  well  through  Sherman's  army. 

Our  army  was  to  have  been  reviewed  here  at  Rich 
mond  by  Gen.  Ilalleck,  but  Gen.  Sherman  came  up  just 
then — having  come  around  from  Xorth  Carolina  by 
water,  and  objected.  The  order  was  countermanded 
and  we  were  glad  of  it,  as  reviews  were  never  desirable. 
Thanks  to  (Jen.  Sherman,  we  thought  we  had  done 


INDIANA    YOU   NTKKK    VKTKUANS.  203 

enough  of  that  kind  of  service.  The  most  notable  object 
we  noticed  in  Richmond  was  Lib  by  prison,  where  so 
many  of  our  men  were  confined  during  the  war.  Rich 
mond,  like  most  southern  towns,  was  a  back  number — 
behind  the  times  in  point  of  modern  improvements.  In 
the  State  house  park  was  a  line  equestrian  statue  of  Wash 
ington,  surrounded  by  a  group  of  statues  of  old  Virginia 
statesmen — tine  pieces  of  art,  but  they  must  have  looked 
a  little  out  of  place  in  the  Confederate  capitol. 

On  the  llth  of  May  the  march  was  resumed,  this  time 
for  Washington  City.  Just  after  we  had  passed  through 
Richmond  we  were  halted,  probably  to  let  the  citizens 
dispose  of  their  garden  vegetables,  cakes  and  such  things 
as  they  supposed  the  soldiers  had  been  having  a  surfeit  of 
for  some  time.  We  remember  one  Confederate  had  a 
pudding  baked  in  a  pan  something  smaller  than  a  dish 
pan;  somehow  it  disappeared  and  there  was  the  most 
astonished  look  on  that  man's  face  that  we  ever  saw. 
After  the  officers  supposed  we  had  time  to  buy  the  supplies, 
we  were  ordered  to  fall  in,  and  resumed  our  march.  The 
citizens  had  disposed  of  their  truck,  the  boys  had  eaten  it 
and  we  suppose  have  not  yet  returned  to  pay  for  it.  We 
marched  by  way  of  Hanover  Court  House,  Kelly's  Ford, 
Bull  Run  battle-field  and  Fairfax  Court  House,  and 
camped  May  18th  on  the  height  between  Washington 
and  Alexandria,  and  in  sight  of  the  National  capital. 
Here  we  remained  until  after  the  grand  review. 

All  Companies  had  their  odd  characters,  and  Co.  1> 
was  no  exception.  After  leaving  Richmond  one  of  our 
Company  was  missing,  and  on  our  march  to  Washington 
there  was  some  talk  among  the  boys  as  to  what  should 
be  done  with  him  for  playing  off  on  this  march,  ('apt. 
Carver  promised  to  punish  him  for  it.  The  next  morn 
ing,  after  wo  arrived  near  the  city,  IJowers  came  up  and 
the  Captain  took  him  to  task  for  not  marching  through 


201 


I1ISTOUY   OF  TII.K  TlIIItTV-SKVKNTH 


with  the  Company.  Bowers  said  he  had  marched  as 
much  in  this  "tarn  war''  as  he  intended  to,  so  he  took 
passage  by  water  and  came  around.  The  Captain  took  a 
rope  and  tied  Bowers'  hands  behind  his  back,  then  tied 
him  to  a  small  tree.  After  some  time  the  officers'  cook 
got  their  breakfast  ready  and  they  sat  down  to  eat. 
Presently  Bowers  remarked  to  the  Captain  that  it  looked 
hard  for  him  to  be  tied  after  he  had  marched  nearly  all 
over  the  Confederacy,  and  to  stand  there  without  any 
breakfast  while  the  rest  were  eating  and  enjoying  them 

selves.  The  Captain  asked 
him  if  he  had  not  had  his 
breakfast,  then  got  up, 
untied  him  and  told  him 
to  sit  down  and  eat  with 
them.  Bowers  told  the 
Captain  all  about  his 
trip  and  of  all  the  sights 
he  had  seen  in  Washing 
ton  and  how  he  had 
enjoyed  himself.  The 
officer  was  much  inter 
ested  and  when  break 
fast  was  over  allowed 
Bowers  to  remain  re- 

Johu  Pattern.  First  Sergeant   Co.   K:     leased.         We       were       Oil 

died  of  wounds   Feb.  is.  18H3.  re-   grand    review  May  24th. 


-eived  at  Stone  river  Dec.  31.  U 


jnto 


about  two  miles  north  of  the  city  in  a  beautiful  grove 
near  the  Soldiers'  Home.  Congress  was  not  in  session 
and  we  had  the  privilege  of  going  through  the  Capitol 
and  other  public  places  at  will.  We  were  not  slow  to 
improve  our  opportunities.  The  country  between  Rich 
mond  and  Washington  looked  very  desolate,  having 
been  occupied  and  over-run  for  years  by  contending 


INDIANA     VOLTXTKHI!    V  KT  K  K  A  N  S.  '20') 

armies.  There  were  no  inhabitants,  no  buildings,  no 
stock,  no  crops  and  the  land  was  a  poor,  dreary  waste. 
The  only  good  country  we  remember  to  have  seen  in  the 
State  was  the  Hoanoke  Valley.  It  appeared  to  have 
been  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation  previous  to  the  war. 
Hanover  Court  House  was  a  very  plain  looking  building, 
constructed  in  colonial  times  and  made  of  brick  im 
ported  from  England.  Fairfax  was  a  small,  obsolete 
looking  place,  and  is  frequently  mentioned  in  the  his 
tories  of  the  war.  When  we  reached  Washington  City, 
our  active  soldier  life  was  at 
an  end;  the  last  battle  had  f 

.£  *«h 

been  fought,  the  last  march 

had  been  made,  the  flag  had 

been     restored     and     peace  ,-  */ 

reigned    supreme.       Troops 

were    being     mustered    out 

every    day,  but   the  western 

troops    of   Sherman's    army 

were  sent  to  Louisville.  Ivy.. 

to  be  mustered  out. 

The  last  year's  cam 
paign  had  been  very  ar-  L6vi  Nutt.  Co.  B. 
duous  and  enervating,  to  Summitsviiie.  ind. 
say  nothing  about  the  many  hard-fought  battles,  thrill 
ing  adventures  and  hair-breadth  escapes.  The  men  as  a 
rule  appeared  to  stand  the  hardships  very  well  at  the 
time,  but  when  peace  came  their  systems  gave  way  to 
the  great  physical  strain  they  were  so  long  under,  and  a 
large  per  cent,  of  them  became  unfit  for  further  service. 
Many  succumbed  and  few  entirely  recovered.  Just 
before  leaving  Washington,  Co.  B  was  detailed  as 
guards  at  headquarters  second  division  Fourteenth  A.  C., 
under  Gen.  James  I).  Morgan.  On  the  13th  of  June  we 
left  the  citv  via  Baltimore  &  Ohio  railroad,  took  the 


20()  HISTORY  OF  T1IK   Til  I  RT  V-SE  VENTII 

steamer  Lady  Grace  at  Parkersburg.  and  arrived  at 
Louisville  on  the  18th.  We  went  into  camp  a  mile  east 
of  the  city,  near  the  work-house  pike,  and  this  was  our 
last  camping  place.  While  here  we  were  camped  near 
a  dairy  and  the  boys  used  co  go  over  of  nights  and  milk 
the  cows.  The  dairyman  objected  to  our  help  and  went 
to  headquarters  and  asked  to  have  a  guard  detailed  to 
watch  his  cows.  Fred  Aman  was  detailed  as  guard,  but 
all  the  arrest  he  made  was  a  coffee-pot,  the  boys  giving 
him  the  slip  and  getting  away. 

As  guards  at  headquarters,  our  duties  were  light; 
we  were  not  under  much  restraint  and  had  a  good  time 
generally.  A  good  many  of  the  boys  went  home  on 
French  leave,  but  returned  in  due  time.  July  24th, 
1865,  mustered  rolls  were  signed  and  final  papers  were 
prepared.  A  few  days  later  all  of  the  two  Companies 
went  up  to  Indianapolis,  the  detachment  having  been 
mustered  out  with  the  Thirty-eighth  Indiana  on  the 
15th  of  July.  Gov.  Morton  and  other  State  officers  met 
us  with  a  kindly  greeting.  We  stayed  in  the  city  two  or 
three  days  and  Aug.  1st  received  final  pay  and  dis 
charges  from  Uncle  Sam's  army.  Then  we  scattered  to 
our  several  homes,  few  of  us  ever  to  meet  again.  Of 
the  one  hundred  stalwart  young  patriots  that  composed 
our  Company  (B),  at  Lawrenceburg  four  years  before, 
only  twenty-live  were  present  at  the  final  muster  out  of 
the  Company  at  the  close  of  the  war.  Some  had  been 
killed  in  battle,  some  died  of  wounds,  others  of  disease, 
and  some  had  been  discharged  on  account  of  wounds 
and  other  disabilities.  But  all  had  discharged  their  ob 
ligations  to  the  best  of  their  abilities  and  opportunities. 
"Peace  hath  her  victories  not  less  renowned  than  war.7' 

To  the  friends  and  living  comrades  of  the  Thirty- 
seventh  Residuary  Battalion  Indiana  Veteran  Volunteer 
Infantry,  and  to  the  memory  of  those  who  have  an- 


INDIANA    YOM'NTKKI!    V  I'.T  K  II  A  N  S.  "201 

swered  the  last  roll  call  this  history  is  ivsnectfully  inscribed. 
After  thirty  years  have  passed,  it  is  not  easy  to 
write  a  history  of  the  thrilling-  experiences  and  exciting 
scenes  of  our  service,  with  but  little  reliable  data  and 
very  deficient  memories  from  which  to  draw.  It  has 
been  our  constant  aim  to  be  correct  and  to  obtain  as  re 
liable  data  as  possible. 

We  wish  to  acknowledge  our  obligations  to  Com 
rades  James  Coulter,  Mitchel  H.  Day,  Tip  Davis,  Isaac  H. 
Andrews,  John  F.  Wolverton,  Edwin  E.  Druley,  Ellis  W. 
Foster,  Levi  L.  Bond,  James  S.  Greenlee,  Thomas  G.  Van 
Meter  and  Isaac  Wilkinson  for  their  assistance  and  kind 
Avords  of  encouragement  to  us,  in  the  work  of  compiling 
the  matter  herein  contained. 

May  this  short  history  recall  many  recollections  of 
our  service  and  bring  about  the  renewal  of  comradeships 
almost  forgotten.  May  the  coming  years  crown  each 
comrade  with  plenty,  peace  and  honor,  as  full  and  free 
as  his  loyal  service  in  defense  of  the  Union  deserves,  is 
the  wish  of  their  comrade,  -I  A  MES  W.  SCOTT. 


[The  following  was  written  by  Comrade  Alexander  S. 
Butler:] 

After  the  Thirty-seventh  left  for  home,  their  time  of 
service  having  about  expired,  Gen.  Hood  began  a  move 
ment  to  Gen.  Sherman's  rear,  intending,  no  doubt,  to  cut 
off  supplies  and  capture  all  army  stores  in  his  rear.  The 
events  that  occurred  at  Allatoona  furnished  the  facts  for 
the  song,  "Hold  the  Fort.''  By  so  doing  he  would  be 
compelled  to  retreat  out  of,  not  only  Atlanta,  but  out  of 
Georgia  and  Tennessee  as  well.  The  movement  in  that 
direction  was  followed  up  fora  time.  When  the  object 
was  understood,  Gen.  Sherman  stopped  the  pursuit  and 
returned  to  Atlanta,  Co.  15  being  in  the  movement,  and 
only  got  as  far  north  as  A ck  worth.  The  Company  guarded 


208 


MliSTOKY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 


forage  there  a  day  or  two,  the  only  duty  so  far.  While 
the  writer  of  this  was  on  duty  at  about  9  o'clock  p.  m.,  a 
line  officer  approached  to  say  that  a  sack  of  corn  had  been 
stolen  and  was  abandoned  for  fear  of  capture.  A  Cor 
poral  was  called  and  sent  for  it.  Et  proved  to  be  coffee; 
had  been  stolen  from  cars  near  by.  Could  a  soldier 
steal  something  to  eat  from  his  government? 

The  above  incidents  occurred  about  the  first  and 
second  weeks  in  October,  1864.  We  remained  at  At 
lanta  about  a  month.  The  movement  to  the  sea  was 

begun  on  the  14th  of  Xo- 
vember.  Co.  B  being  in  the 
city,  was  about  the  last  to 
leave.  We  saw  several 
warehouses  of  cotton  con 
sumed.  We  commenced 
our  tramp  with  the  artillery 
corps.  It  was  march,  and 
no  duty;  monotonous  for  a 
month.  A  very  few  places 
are  remembered.  Coving- 
ton  and  Millegeville,  the 
capital  of  Georgia,  are  re 
membered.  At  the  latter 
place  a  few  men  wearing 
striped  clothing  were  seen. 
The  weather  was  dry  and  pleasant  and  the  roads  good. 
When  we  got  to  the  Savannah  river  we  crossed  a  broad 
swamp  on  a  graded  road,  with  a  trestle  bridge  that  had 
an  outlet  a  little  way  to  the  left  through  a  deep  cut  just 
at  the  river.  Co.  B  was  located  in  it  just  at  night,  to 
intercept  a  rebel  gunboat  that  had  just  gone  up  the 
river.  We  were  there  all  night,  but  saw  no  boat.  A 
day  or  two  before  we  arrived  at  the  swamp  the  corps 
Quartermaster  passed  the  writer  as  lie  tramped  alone, 


L.  L.  Bond.  Co.  B. 
Quakertown.  Ind. 


INDIANA   VOLUNTEER   VETERANS.  09 

saluted  and  said  he  would  like  some  of  that  coffee  at 
Ackworth.  An  explanation  was  asked  and  one  given, 
and  so  passed  on. 

That  night  we  had  some  coffee  and  crackers  issued 
to  lls — the  first  on  the  trip.  It  showed,  too,  that  rations 
could  be  had  without  a  requisition.  At  Savannah  we 
got  nothing  but  coffee  and  rice  at  the  first.  While  at 
Savannah  we  went  where  and  when  we  pleased,  and 
stayed  as  long1.  When  we  went  to  the  Savannah  river 
at  the  landing,  eighteen  miles  from  the  ocean,  we 
marched  down  the  streets  or  near  the  buildings  and 
went  over  or  around  the  stoops  (porticos),  they  extend 
ing  into  or  across  the  sidewalk,  and  some  of  them  two  or 
three  feet  high. 

To  go  back  to  the  "swamp."  There  was  a  brick 
church  there,  built  in  1765.  The  bricks  were  imported 
from  England.  Unpainted,  hard,  pine  seats  and 
elevated  pulpit,  with  columns  supporting  the  roof,  made 
it  look  old.  I  wondered,  while  up  in  the  pulpit  look 
ing  down  at  the  boys,  who  had  strolled  into  it,  if  the 
Johnnies  had  taught  the  13th  chapter  of  Romans,  or  if 
their  preachers  had.  It  has  taken  a  goad  deal  of  writing 
to  tell  about  watching  for  that  gunboat  that  night.  In 
doing  so  I  have  told  Co.  B's  history  as  it  was  worked 
out.  The  Company  made  one  foraging  trip  and  got  but 
little  or  nothing. 

When  we  were  ordered  to,  we  started  Xorth  with 
the  rest  of  the  boys.  In  two  or  three  days  we  got  up  to 
Sisters  Ferry,  where  we  crossed  over  to  South  Carolina 
(ancient  secessions) ;  were  detained  there  a  little.  Dur 
ing  the  time  Co.  B  did  something  else.  Gen.  Jefferson 
C.  Davis  had  ordered  Co.  B  to  report  to  the  Twenty- 
second  Indiana  Infantry  two  or  three  different  times. 
We  had  all  agreed  to  not  do  it.  At  the  ferry  Gen. 
Davis  sent  an  orderly  with  a  request,  verbal,  I  believe 


HISTORY  OF  THK  THIHTY-SHVKNTII 

for  the  Captain  and  a  Sergeant  to  come  to  his  tent.  It 
was  to  ask  why  Co.  B  did  not  obey  his  orders  to  report 
to  the  Twenty -second  Infantry.  The  Captain  told  the 
Genera]  that  we  had  not  refused  to  do  duty,  that  we 
would  do  any  duty  ordered,  but  that  we  would  not 
consent  to  a  disbanding'  of  the  Company;  so  we  went 
with  the  Twenty -second  Indiana  and  retained  our  or 
ganization  until  mustered  out  of  the  service.  That  was 
the  status  of  the  Company  when  the  writer  and  all  the 
members  of  the  Company  whose  term  expired  before 
Oct.  1st,  1865.  I  do  not  know  now  whether  that  order 
applied  to  the  drafted  men  or  not.  The  Company  was 
organized  under  an  order  from  a  ranking  officer.  Gen. 
Jeff.  C.  Davis  could  not  compel  us  to  go,  nor  could  he 
disband  the  Company.  Co.  A  was  disbanded  at  the 
time  the  Regiment  left  for  Indianapolis,  I  think.  I 
know  nothing  at  all  of  it  or  of  the  detachment.  They 
were  in  a  different  part  of  the  army — probably  with 
Gen.  Thomas'  army  at  Nashville. 

The  whole  march  to  Savannah  and  also  from 
Savannah  to  Raleigh,  N.  C.,  was  uneventful.  We 
crossed  several  streams  on  pontoon  bridges ;  had  little  to 
do ;  only  a  little  at  Bentonville ;  lived  on  yarns  mostly ; 
got  a  little  fresh  pork  at  times;  had  crackers  and  coffee 
all  the  time,  and  have  no  recollection  of  doing  guard  or 
picket  duty  on  the  whole  march  around  to  Washington. 
We  went  along  with  the  boys  after  the  battle  of  Benton 
ville  and  the  surrender  of  Johnson's  army  in  the  vicinity 
of  Raleigh,  X.  C.  Sherman's  army  made  a  race  for 
Washington.  Home  with  a  discharge  seemed  near  and 
gave  spring  to  the  muscles  and  satisfaction  to  the  mind. 
The  writer  did  not  march,  but  went  to  New  Berne  by 
rail  and  up  the  Albemarle  and  Pamlico  sounds  and 
Elizabeth  river  to  Norfolk,  and  across  the  Hampton 
roads  to  Fortress  Monroe;  then  up  Chesapeake  Bay 


INDIANA    YOU   NTKKK    VKTEKANS.  211 

and  Potomac  river  to  Alexandria,  where  the  troops 
\vere  encamped.  Then  came  the  review.  I  send  a 
clipping  from  a  newspaper,  from  Gen.  Grant's  memoirs. 
Ft  gives  a  better  idea  of  the  review  than  I  can  write  : 

"On  the  18th  of  May  orders  were  issued  by  the 
Adjutant-General  for  a  grand  review,  by  the  President 
and  his  Cabinet,  of  Sherman's  and  Meade's  armies. 
The  review  commenced  on  the  22d.  and  lasted  two 
days.  Meade's  army  occupied  over  six  hours  of  the 
first  day  in  passing  the  grand  stand,  which  had  been 
erected  in  front  of  the  President's  house.  Sherman 
witnessed  this  review  from  the  grand  stand,  which  was 
occupied  by  the  President  and  his  Cabinet.  *  *  *  Sher 
man's  troops  had  been  in  camp  on  the  south  side  of  the 
Potomac.  During  the  night  of  the  23d  he  crossed  over 
and  bivouacked  not  far  from  the  Capitol.  Promptly  at 
10  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  the  24th  his  troops  com 
menced  to  pass  in  review.  Sherman's  army  made  a 
different  appearance  from  that  of  the  army  of  the 
Potomac.  The  latter  had  been  operating  where  they 
received  directly  from  the  North  full  supplies  of  food 
and  clothing  regularly.  The  review  of  this  army  there 
fore  was  the  review  of  a  body  of  65,000  well-drilled, 
well-disciplined  and  orderly  soldiers,  inured  to  hardship 
and  fit  for  any  duty,  but  without  the  experience  of  gath 
ering  their  own  food  and  supplies  in  an  enemy's  country, 
and  of  being  ever  on  the  watch.  Sherman's  army  was 
not  so  well  dressed  as  the  army  of  the  Potomac,  but 
their  marching  could  not  be  excelled ;  they  gave  the  ap 
pearance  of  men  who  had  been  thoroughly  drilled  to 
endure  hardships,  either  by  long  and  continuous  marches 
or  through  exposure  to  any  climate,  without  the  ordinary 
shelter  of  a  camp.  They  exhibited  also  some  of  the 
order  of  march  through  Georgia  where  the  ''sweet 
potatoes  sprung  up  from  the  ground,"  as  Sherman's  army 


'"2  HISTORY  OF  THE   THIRTY-SEVENTH 

went  marching-  through.  Ln  the  rear  of  a  Company 
there  would  be  a  captured  horse  or  mule  loaded  with 
small  cooking  utensils,  captured  chickens  and  other  food 
picked  up  for  the  use  of  the  men.  Negro  families  who 
had  followed  the  army  would  sometimes  come  along  in 
the  rear  of  the  Company,  with  three  or  four  children 
packed  upon  a  single  mule,  and  the  mother  leading  it. 

"The  sight  was  varied  and  grand.  Nearly  all  day 
for  two  successive  days,  from  the  Capitol  to  the  Treas 
ury  Building,  could  be  seen  a  mass  of  orderly  soldiers 
marching  in  columns  of  Companies.  The  National  Hag 
was  flying  from  almost  every  house  and  store;  the 
windows  were  filled  with  spectators;  the  doorsteps  and 
sidewalks  were  crowded  with  colored  people  and  poor 
whites  who  did  not  succeed  in  securing  better  quarters 
from  which  to  get  a  view  of  the  grand  armies.  The 
city  was  about  as  full  of  strangers  who  had  come  to  see 
the  sights  as  it  usually  is  on  inauguration  day,  when  a 
new  President  takes  his  seat." 

After  this  Ave  had  a  free  visit  to  all  the  public 
buildings  of  the  Capitol,  as  well  as  the  Capitol  itself. 
The  muster  out  and  the  sluggish  trip  home.  A  little 
delayed  by  red  tape  at  Indianapolis  and  we  were  soon  at 
home  on  June  18th,  1865.  A.  S.  BUTL.KR. 


INDIANA    YOLrNTKKH    VKT  KHANS.  213 

Residuary  Battalion  Co.  A. 

Captain — 

Myers,  George,  not  mustered    as  Captain;   prisoner  of 

war,  captured  Xov.  25.  '64. 
First  Lieutenant — 

Kirk,  Thomas,  mustered  out  with  battalion. 
First  Sergeant — 

Nelson,  Devastus  W.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Sergeants — 

Cravens,  Wesley,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Castetter,  Ira,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Andrews,  Isaac  H.,  mustered  out  June  14,  '65. 

Starkey,  Thomas,  mustered  out  June  14,  '65. 
Corporals — 

Stephens,  Benjamin,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Kennedy,  John  E.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Uppinghouse,  P^li  F.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Meek.  James  H.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Grecian,  Isaac,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Myers,   James     C.,    mustered     out   July     25.     '65.    as 
Sergeant. 

Backert,  Joseph,  mustered  out  as  Sergeant. 

Burlban.  John,  transferred  to  V.  R.  C.  March  22,  '65. 
Privates — 

Buchanuan.  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Brown.  Harrison,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Brown,  James  P.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Bodine,  Jeremiah  M..  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Bohlander,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Coplinger,  Jacob  M.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Cole,  William,  mustered  out  July  25,  G5. 

Curren,  Xewton,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Crane,  Cornelius  E.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Corlin,  Philip,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Carpenter,  Oliver,  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 


214  HISTORY  OF  TIIK  TIIIHTY-SKVKNTII 

Cox,  William  A.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Cameron,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Christopher,  Michael,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Cooney,  John,  killed  at  Broad  River,  S.  C.,  Feb.  19,  '65. 
Coiles,  John,  killed  at  Columbia,  S.  C.,  Feb.  19,  '65. 
Cochran,  Levi,  mustered  out  June  17,  '65. 
Day,  Mahlon,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Davis,  Guilford  I).,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Dickerson,  Xewton,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Dunn,  Samuel  II.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Dalrymple,  Charles,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Edens,  Ezekiel,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Francisco,  Obadiah    A.,  mustered   out  July    25,  '65,  as 

Corporal. 

French,  Thomas,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Grey,  Thomas,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Gibson,  Charles,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Geokins,  Harrison,  died  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  Jan.  19,  '65. 
Horning,  Lewis,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Horning,  Andrew,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Hamilton.  William,  killed  at  Lewisville,  Ga.,  Nov. 25,  '64. 
Mallet,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Hanna,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Heller,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Hess,  Theodore,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Hollensbee,  Edward,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Hoffmaster,  Frederick,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
II anna,  David,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Harry,  James,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Jones,  Stephen,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Kelley,  William  B.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Kinnev,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Killy,  Barnard,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Love,  Lewis,  mustered  out  July  25,  65. 
Love,  George  W.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 


1  N IHAXA  YOLrXTKKK  VKTKKAXS.  215 

Langly,  Peter,  mustered  out  July  25,  65. 
Linville.  Thomas,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Live,  Harrison,  mustered  out  June  17,  '65. 
Morgan,  Warren,  mustered  out  June  17,  '65. 
Maynard,   Henry,  discharged    March    14,   '65,  for   dis 
ability. 

McNew.  John  J.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
New  berry,  Granville,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Payton,  John  C.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Powell,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Purnell,  Robert  L.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Payne.  William  H.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Owen,  John  J.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Sutton,  Reuben,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Swing.  Jeremiah,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Stark,  Thomas,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Stark,  Benjamin  F.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Sage,  Elihu,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Snyder,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Spears,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65.  • 

Stoll,  John  G.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Spears,  Joseph  J.,  mustered  out  June  17,  '65. 
Sanders,  George  W.,  mustered  out  June  17,  '65. 
Summerville,  James  W.,  mustered  out  July  25,  T>5. 
Ward,  Jonathan  B.,  mustered  out  Dec.  16,  '64. 
Wayland,  William  A.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Wright,  George  W.,  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 
Wright,  James,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Widener,  Leonard,  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 
Widener,  Abram  T.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Williamson,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Recruits — 

Buckmaster,  Cyrus,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Dunlap,  Samuel,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Fox,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 


216  HISTORY  OF  THE  THIRTY-SEVENTH 

Gookins,  Harrison,  died  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  Jan.  19,  '65. 
Graul,  Joseph,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Hablizel,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Hampton,  Hiram  L.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Ilolbrook,  Lucien  P.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Hilton,  Elbridge  G.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Jerraid,  William,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Dayton,  Joseph  W.,  mustered  out  June  15,  '65. 
Proctor,  Thomas,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
"Reeder,  Samuel,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Shinabarger,  Hugh  P.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Shinabarger,  John  H.,  mastered  out  June  21,  '65. 
Shinabarger,  John,  mustered  out  June  21,  '65. 
Whitcomb,  Orletus  P.,  mustered  out  June  21,  '65. 

Residuary  Battalion  Co.  B. 

Captain — 

Carver,  Socrates,  mustered  out  with  battalion. 
First  Lieutenant — 

Coulter,  James,  mustered  out  with  battalion. 
Seconcf  Lieutenant — 

Day,  Mitchel  H.,  mustered  out  with  battalion. 
First  Sergeant — 

Davis,  Marion,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Sergeants — 

Barnard,  James  C.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Foster,  Ellis  W.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Hollingsworth,  Joseph,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Childs,  Edwin  II.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Corporals — 

Nutt,  Levi,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Bell,  Andrew  M.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

McCullum,  Edward,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Winans,  William  F.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Winans,  Frazier  X.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Force,  Xelson  Iv.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 


INDIANA    VOLrNTKKK   VKTKKANS.  217 

Vogan,  George  W.,  mustered  out  July  25.  '05. 
Bartlow,  James  H.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Privates — 

Anderson,  Lucius  L.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
A  man,  Frederick,  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 
Butler,  Alexander  S.,  mustered  out  June  9,  '60. 
Brown,  Theodore  T.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Burgess.  Joseph  G.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Baker,  Stephen,  mustered  out  July  25,  -'65. 
Baker,  Joshua,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Barnard,  Oliver  W.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '05. 
Bloom,  George,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Bowers,  Myer,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Bowen,  Thomas  J.,  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 
Bastian,  Sibrant,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Bainbridge,  George  W.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Bond,  Levi  L..  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Daniels,  William  S.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Davis,  Charles  L.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Davis,  Allen,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Kmmett,  William,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Edwards,  Robert  H.,  died  at  Chattanooga  June  7.  '64. 
Forrer,  Martin  H.,  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 
draper.  William  F., died  at  Chattanooga  Aug.  20,  "61. 
Goltry,  David,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Grob,  Michael,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Green,  James  A.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Guire,  John  H.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Harvey,  William  W.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Hooks,  George  W.,  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 
1  learn.  William  T.,  mustered  out  June  17.  '65. 
Flarwood,  Joseph,  mustered  out  June  8.  '65. 
Johnston,  William  F.,  mustered  out  May  11).  '65. 
Kennett.  Wiley,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65, 
Kennett.  Abram  <•..  mustered  out  Juno  9.  '65. 


218  HISTORY   OF  TIIK   TIM  KT  Y-NK  V  KNTII 

Kempner,  William  L.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Long,  Woodson,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Lines,  William  M.,  died  at  Nashville  Feb.  9,  '65. 
Mitchell,  David  L.,  mustered  out  June  9.  '65. 
Monroe,  Calvin,  discharged  May  22,  '65,  disability. 
Marquette,  Jacob  J.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
McClain,  Robert,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
McClain,  Tilford,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Morton,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Moore,  Craven  B.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Miller,  William  H.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Mitchell,  Daniel,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Mullen,  James  M.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '56. 
'Phillips,  William,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Phillips,  Eli,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Roszell,  Thomas,  mustered  out  July  25,  65. 
lieser,  James  H.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Stringer,  James  B.,  discharged  Xov.  23,  '64,  disability. 
Smith,  James,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Sharp,  James  W.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Scott,  James  W.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Taten,  Samuel,  mustered  out  June  17,  '65. 
Thorn,  John  D.,  mustered  out  June  9,  '65, 
Thompson,  Samuel,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Van  Meter,  Thomas  (i.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Wilkinson,  Isaac,  mustered  out  June  17,  '65. 
Wolstenholm,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Whitcomb,  Lyman,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Yates,  John,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Recruits — 

Brown,  Henry,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
CrisAvell,  James  W.,  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 
Druley,  Edwin  E.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Foster,  William,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 
Green,  Edward  M.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 


INDIANA    VOLT  NT  KICK    V  KTK  K  A  X  S.  21(J 

Greenwell,  William,  mustered  out  June  9,  V>5. 

Hand,  Robert  S.,  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 

Jones,  James  H.,  mustered  out  June  9,  '65. 

Jones,  Thomas  E.,  mustered  out  June  9.  '65. 

Lane,  Edwin,  mustered  out  June  9,  '65. 

Lichtenberger,  Peter,  mustered  out  June  29,  '65. 

Mitchell,  Milton  A.,  mustered  out  June  9,  '65. 

Martin,  Asa. 

Newman,  Philip  W..  mustered  out  July  25.  '65. 

Nichols.  Peter  L.,  mustered  out  June  3,  '65. 

Pence,  Lewis  M..  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Robins.  James,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Robinson,  James,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Smith,  Granville,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Schweigert,  Henry,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Setirt,  William  W.,  mustered  out  June  9,  T>5. 

Stull,  John,  mustered  out  June  9,  '65. 

St.  Clair,  Jesse,  mustered  out  June  9,  '65. 

Tatman,  William,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Thompson,  John  N.,  mustered  out  July  25,  '65. 

Waters,    Hosea    M.,    died     at     Rockingham.    X.    (\. 

March  8,  '65. 

Williams.  Denton,  mustered  out  June  29,  '65. 
Wyland,  Benjamin  F.,  mustered  out  June  9,  '(55. 
Yoder,  John  II.,  mustered  out  June  9,  '65. 
Zeitler,  Wolfgang,  mustered  out  June  9,  '65. 

Detachment  Thirty-seventh  Indiana,  Commanded  by   Ser 
geant  John  F.  Wolverton. 

Beck,  Frederick. 
Brooks,  Lewis  C. 
Bartlow,  William  II. 
Clark,  Benjamin  K. 
Cook,  Abram. 
Daily.  Barton  X. 


220  HISTORY  OF  THE  Til  I  K'TY-SK  V  KNTI I 

Den  ham,  James  B. 
Denham,  Benjamin. 
Fisher,  James  A. 
Fox,  John  H. 
Gamber,  John. 
George,  Atwell. 
Greenlee,  James  L. 
Ham] in,  John. 
Hainlin,  Omer. 
Keeler,  Ira  M. 
Keeler,  John  M. 
Kelly,  William. 
Knapp.  Abram. 
Larue,  George  X. 
Liming1,  Robert. 
Lowes,  Cyrenus  S. 
Martin,  Milton. 
McKeeon,  William. 
McKee,  James  C. 
McNeely,  Birt. 
Millspaugh,  George  C. 
Rutherford,  Anderson. 
Scott,  Samuel. 
Scott,  Joseph  A. 

Schofield,  Edward,  killed  at  Rentonville,  X.  C 
Sizelove,  Joseph  R. 
Shafer,  Henry  J. 
Stopper,  William. 
True,  Thomas  F. 
Taylor,  Squire  A. 
Ward,  James  A. 
Wilson,  Milton  M.,  mustered  out  as  Sergeant. 
Wooley,  James  H.,  mustered  out  as  Sergeant. 
Wood,  Thomas  J. 
\Voodard.  Charles  W. 


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